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APR 6, 2011 • Journal
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
APR 6, 2011 • Journal
Measuring Justice: Primary Goods and Capabilities, Harry Brighouse and Ingrid Robeyns, eds.
In this rich collection, Harry Brighouse and Ingrid Robeyns bring together distinguished philosophers and political theorists to debate the virtues and vices of competing metrics ...
APR 6, 2011 • Journal
Protectors of Privacy: Regulating Personal Data in the Global Economy by Abraham L. Newman
Abraham Newman has written a thoughtful and provocative book about the protection of privacy and how it has evolved in two dramatically different ways in ...
APR 6, 2011 • Journal
Moral Dilemmas of Modern War: Torture, Assassination, and Blackmail in an Age of Asymmetric Conflict by Michael L. Gross [Full Text]
Michael Gross believes that much contemporary warfare is so different from past armed conflicts that many of the old moral and legal prohibitions should no ...
APR 6, 2011 • Journal
International Criminal Law and Philosophy, Larry May and Zachary Hoskins, eds. [Full Text]
"International Criminal Law and Philosophy" raises fundamental questions and examines novel issues in the emerging field of international criminal law. May and Hoskins have provided ...
APR 6, 2011 • Journal
The Evolution of International Security Studies by Barry Buzan and Lene Hansen [Full Text]
The book contains a recognizable mix of Copenhagen and English School viewpoints, which, according to Ken Booth, means that there is altogether too little about ...
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A Response to "Precommitment Regimes for Intervention"
Buchanan and Keohane argue that institutional reform is required to reverse the inertia that has too often constituted the international response to intra-state crises. Their ...
APR 6, 2011 • Journal
Globalizing Responsibility for Climate Change
In distributing the costs associated with climate change, most scholars have focused exclusively upon mitigation burdens. Few consider the distribution of adaptation costs, which concern ...
APR 6, 2011 • Journal
Precommitment Regimes for Intervention: Supplementing the Security Council
We consider two different types of alternatives to the Security Council for authorizing military action across borders: a democratic coalition and a precommitment regime, by ...
APR 6, 2011 • Journal
Clean Trade in Natural Resources
The resource curse impedes core interests of importing states, while the policies of these states drive the resource curse. These policies violate importing states' existing ...