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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 ...

SEP 28, 2010 Journal

Just War, Jihad, and the Study of Comparative Ethics

What can the study of the comparative ethics tell us about the similarities and divergences between the just war and jihad traditions? How can the ...

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SEP 23, 2010 Article

Sustainability: An Engine for Growth

"Sustainability is changing the way businesses think about innovation—with customers, partners, and within organizations themselves," writes Corporate EcoForum's Jeffrey Hittner.

SEP 20, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Journalism Students Interview Policy Innovations

Indian Institute of Journalism & New Media students interview editor Devin T. Stewart on how journalists can use social media for newsgathering, research, interviews, crowdsourcing, and ...

SEP 16, 2010 Journal Online Exclusive

EIA Interview: Mathias Risse on Justice and Common Ownership of the Earth

Philosopher Mathias Risse discusses his concept of common ownership of the earth--the equal claim of each person to the planet and its resources--and what this ...

CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mlr654/3471443950">Martin Le Roy</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">CC</a>).

SEP 14, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Islands of Inertia

In the wake of Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan's victory over Ichiro Ozawa for control of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, is more inertia ...

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/erinmpage/4589561753/" target= _blank">Nuclear free zone</a> by Erinmarie Page  (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en" target=_blank">CC</a>)

SEP 7, 2010 Article

NWFZs: Pursuing a World Free of Nuclear Weapons

Today there are five Nuclear Weapon Free Zone (NWFZ) treaties, yet only one has been fully ratified. Sadly, the reservations of the nuclear weapon states, ...