Recent Articles
JUL 12, 2012 • Journal
Addressing Poverty and Climate Change: The Varieties of Social Engagement
In this article I propose to explore two issues. The first concerns what kinds of contributions academics can make to reducing poverty. I argue that ...
JUL 12, 2012 • Journal
Beyond Charity: Helping NGOs Lead a Transformative New Public Discourse on Global Poverty and Social Justice
This article looks at the role that Northern nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) can play in engaging domestic publics in efforts to eradicate mass global poverty. There ...
JUL 12, 2012 • Journal
How Academics Can Help People Make Better Decisions Concerning Global Poverty
In this essay I focus mainly on one decision one group of decision-makers faces—concerning whether to give money to NGOs working to combat global ...
JUL 12, 2012 • Journal
Global Poverty and the Limits of Academic Expertise
Academics are not a natural kind. They have varied expertise and aims, and most have no expertise that is particularly relevant to problems of poverty ...
JUL 12, 2012 • Journal
Hegemony in International Society by Ian Clark
This book is the third in a series in which Ian Clark has applied the concept of legitimacy to the English School’s way of ...
JUL 12, 2012 • Journal
The Arc of the Moral Universe and Other Essays by Joshua Cohen
This volume collects eleven of Joshua Cohen’s essays, each of which deals in some way with the nature and role of political justice and ...
JUL 12, 2012 • Journal
The Invention of International Relations Theory: Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory, Edited by Nicolas Guilhot
This collection of eight essays, diverse and insightful, attempts to gauge the true influence of the historic 1954 Conference on International Politics and, more important, to ...
JUL 12, 2012 • Journal
Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II by Michael Burleigh
In this popular survey of some of the larger moral demands and dilemmas of fighting World War II, Michael Burleigh is never boring and quite ...
JUL 1, 2012 • Journal
Summer 2012 (26.2)
This special issue, guest edited by Thomas Pogge and Luis Cabrera, features a series of articles from an expert symposium of Academics Stand Against Poverty, ...