Recent Articles
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 ...
JUN 14, 2010 • Journal
The Paradox of Partnership: Assessing New Forms of NGO Advocacy on Labor Rights
Labor rights public-private partnerships are an important and growing phenomenon in corporate governance, even while they are sometimes used instrumentally by business for reputational reasons, ...
JUN 14, 2010 • Journal
The Responsibility to Protect—Five Years On
States' Responsibility to Protect vulnerable populations has become a prominent feature in international debates about preventing genocide and mass atrocities and about protecting potential victims. ...
JUN 14, 2010 • Journal
The United States and the UN's Targeted Sanctions of Suspected Terrorists: What Role for Human Rights? [Full Text]
The UN Security Council's approach to counterterrorism, which the United States has greatly shaped, has generally shown a marked human rights deficit. The process for ...
JUN 14, 2010 • Journal
Global Justice and the Social Determinants of Health
The final report of the WHO's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health is the first to apply social epidemiological analysis to global health
JUN 11, 2010 • Article
Obama Did Not "Take Down" Hatoyama
Carnegie Council Senior Fellow Devin Stewart explains why Obama should not be blamed for the recent resignation of Japanese prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama.