Articles & Reports

Recent Articles

MAR 27, 2012 Journal

The ICC’s Potential for Doing Bad When Pursuing Good

In this essay I outline three possible negative consequences that could, if they constitute preponderant outcomes, indicate that the court is failing to serve an ...

MAR 27, 2012 Journal

Why the ICC Should Operate Within Peace Processes

This essay makes a consequentialist case against the strict separation of law from politics, particularly in situations of ongoing political violence. In part, this is ...

MAR 27, 2012 Journal

A Brief Response to Michael Ignatieff

For me, the challenge for those committed to a global ethic is not to make better arguments, to point out more contradictions, to seek greater ...

MAR 27, 2012 Journal

The Dialogue of Global Ethics

True to the spirit of Isaiah Berlin, Ignatieff’s is a cosmopolitanism shorn of any totalizing impulse. Its ultimate value is dialogue; its ultimate requirement ...

MAR 27, 2012 Journal

Toward a Global Ethic

In this essay I will not address the content of a global ethic—that is, the particular rights and responsibilities it assigns—but shall instead ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoetnet/5673319519/in/photostream/" target=_blank">zoetnet</a>, The Netherlands

MAR 21, 2012 Article

Europe's Far Right Goes Mainstream: The Failure of Multiculturalism?

What explains the far right's resurgence across Europe? Despite the perceived failures of multiculturalism, the continent should do more to understand why xenophobia remains so ...

Every Nation For Itself

MAR 13, 2012 Article

In A G-Zero World, It's Every Nation For Itself

The new book by Carnegie Council Trustee Ian Bremmer provides a fresh perspective on world politics, writes reviewer Devin Stewart. Some of his conclusions are ...

MAR 13, 2012 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Fruits of Our Labor

Through cultivation of organic mango orchards, Adivasi families in India have been able to build sustainable income and supply the processed-food markets.