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APR 1, 2012 Journal

Reimagining a Global Ethic

BY MICHAEL IGNATIEFF. What status do we give a global ethic in a pluralistic world that, as a matter of fact, is composed, ethically speaking, ...

APR 1, 2012 Journal

Spring 2012 (26.1)

APR 1, 2012 Journal

Spring 2012 (26.1)

This issue features a special symposium, "In Search of a Global Ethic," with a lead article from Michael Ignatieff and responses by Christian Barry, Nicholas ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seiu/4110489562/">SEIU International</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

MAR 30, 2012 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Are Values a Lost Cause?

We are always alone with our values before we express them. Greg Smith bravely voiced his concerns when he resigned from Goldman Sachs. He was ...

MAR 29, 2012 Journal

Morality and War: Can War Be Just in the Twenty-First Century? by David Fisher

Morality and War is a timely addition to contemporary just war literature. While advocating the use of just war principles to evaluate modern armed conflict, ...

MAR 29, 2012 Journal

In Defense of Smart Sanctions: A Response to Joy Gordon

I argue that smart sanctions have been more of a pronounced success than Gordon claims. In addition, I address some of the flaws that she ...

MAR 29, 2012 Journal

After the MDGs: Citizen Deliberation and the Post-2015 Development Framework

For those concerned with and affected by global development and human deprivation, 2015 looms large, for this is the date by which the ambitious Millennium Development ...

MAR 29, 2012 Journal

Almost Saving Whales: The Ambiguity of Success at the International Whaling Commission [Full Text]

BY IAN HURD. The international regulation of whaling has been a tremendous success. Yet the international organization responsible for this success is in crisis.

USTR Ron Kirk congratulates Russia's Trade <br>Minister Elvira Nabiullina on Russia's WTO <br>accession in Geneva in 2011. <br>CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/us-mission/6526054755/in/set-72157628440587473">US Mission Geneva</a>

MAR 29, 2012 Article

Russia Bulletin (2012): Russia Bulletin, Issue 5

Jackson-Vanik, enacted during the Cold War by the U.S. to restrict trade with the Soviet Union, remains on the books almost 40 years later. Will ...

MAR 27, 2012 Journal

Introduction

The ICC is the product of gradual normative changes in world politics since World War II. Since the founding of the United Nations, traditional practices ...