Recent Articles
SEP 29, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Reconstituting Nepal
Successful state-building in Nepal may require the state to compromise in the short term with the morally arbitrary entities that provide services in the villages ...
SEP 28, 2010 • Journal
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
SEP 28, 2010 • Journal
Carl Schmitt and the Politics of Hostility, Violence and Terror by Elizabeth Frazer
Gabriella Slomp's "Carl Schmitt and the Politics of Hostility, Violence and Terror" examines Schmitt's work as a whole, but sets out in particular to draw ...
SEP 28, 2010 • Journal
New Perspectives on Liberal Peacebuilding, edited by Edward Newman, Roland Paris, and Oliver P. Richmond
This edited volume moves beyond the more common analyses of what works and what does not in building sustainable peace in order to raise deeper ...
SEP 28, 2010 • Journal
United Nations Justice: Legal and Judicial Reform in Governance Operations by Calin Trenkov-Wermuth
Calin Trenkov-Wermuth's "United Nations Justice" provides a thoughtful and useful contribution to the understanding of how UN governance operations have evolved.
SEP 28, 2010 • Journal
The Commitments of Cosmopolitanism
Gillian Brock's "Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account" and Darrel Moellendorf's "Global Inequality Matters" present carefully crafted accounts of the obligations we have to non-compatriots and ...
SEP 28, 2010 • Journal Online Exclusive
How to Punish Collective Agents: Non-Compliance with Moral Duties by States (Response to Toni Erskine)
If individual moral agents do wrong they usually deserve and are liable to some kind of punishment. But how can states be punished for failing ...
SEP 28, 2010 • Journal
Reviving Nuclear Ethics: A Renewed Research Agenda for the Twenty-First Century
Since the end of the Cold War, international ethicists have focused largely on issues outside the traditional scope of security studies. The nuclear ethics literature ...
SEP 28, 2010 • Journal
Kicking Bodies and Damning Souls: The Danger of Harming "Innocent" Individuals While Punishing "Delinquent" States
Institutions can be assigned duties, and thus can also be blamed for failing to discharge them. But how can we respond to this type of ...
SEP 28, 2010 • Journal
The Ethical Implications of Sea-Level Rise Due to Climate Change
Does humanity have a moral obligation toward the estimated millions of individuals who will be displaced from their homes over the course of this century ...