Recent Articles
JUN 28, 2010 • Article
Legal Scholars Weigh in on Gaza Blockade, Flotilla Deaths
Putting aside overheated rhetoric and pseudo-legal analyses, security affairs writer Erik Schechter asks a group of international law experts about the blockade of the Gaza ...
JUN 23, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Simulating Environmental Diplomacy
Incorporating environmental issues in conflict resolution may have positive psychological effects on the willingness of parties to cooperate.
JUN 22, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Pragmatic Overdose
The Obama administration is trying to redefine and energize U.S. global development policy, but so far their vision lacks creativity and clear ethics.
JUN 21, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Student Attitudes Surveyed
There is a fine line between self-esteem and self-absorption. It is hard to tell which side Generation Y is on, but the IBM Global Student ...
JUN 14, 2010 • Journal
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
JUN 14, 2010 • Journal
Renegotiation of the Just War Tradition and the Right to War in the Twenty-First Century by Cian O'Driscoll
What were the primary justifications for the Iraq War, and how do they relate to classical and contemporary just war thought? Identifying three such justifications—...
JUN 14, 2010 • Journal
Preemption: Military Action and Moral Justification Edited by Henry Shue and David Rodin
Surveying a variety of perspectives on the uses and limits of preemption, this edited volume coalesces around three key themes: differences in just war terminology ...
JUN 14, 2010 • Journal
A Cosmopolitanism of Nations: Giuseppe Mazzini's Writings on Democracy, Nation Building, and International Relations Edited by Stefano Recchia and Nadia Urbinati
Editors Stefano Recchia and Nadia Urbinati assemble a new collection of original texts by Giuseppe Mazzini, a 19th century Italian activist-philosopher who, despite being almost ...
JUN 14, 2010 • Journal
The Gender of Reparations: Unsettling Sexual Hierarchies While Redressing Human Rights Violations Edited by Ruth Rubio-Marin
This edited collection provides a gender-sensitive analysis of reparations programs in transitional and postconflict societies, examining the gendered nature of violence during armed conflict and ...
JUN 14, 2010 • Journal
Deterrence, Democracy, and the Pursuit of International Justice
Recent indictments of sitting heads of state and rebel leaders engaged in ongoing conflicts are radically altering our conception of international criminal justice. But contrary ...