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MAR 11, 2010 • Journal
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
MAR 11, 2010 • Journal
War in an Age of Risk by Christopher Coker
This book adds several new elements to the relation between war and the risk society. They are anxiety, complexity, and the future, writes reviewer Claudia ...
MAR 11, 2010 • Journal
The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days by Karen Greenberg
The lesson of the first 100 days of Guantanamo is not one of how truth and justice triumphed, but of how efficiently a bureaucratic machine on ...
MAR 11, 2010 • Journal
The Global Commonwealth of Citizens: Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy by Daniele Archibugi
This book provides not only an exhaustive treatment of the benefits and drawbacks of cosmopolitan democracy, but also the most detailed statement to date of ...
MAR 11, 2010 • Journal
Terrorism, Resistance, and the Idea of "Unlawful Combatancy"
When faced with security threats from terrorism and other forms of nonstate political violence, how should liberal-democratic states respond? Finlay discusses books by Tamar Meisels, ...
MAR 11, 2010 • Journal
Deliberation and Global Criminal Justice: Juries in the International Criminal Court
Juries could bolster the ICC's legitimacy by promoting public trust, increasing procedural fairness, foregrounding deliberative reasoning, and embodying democratic values. ICC juries would present novel ...
MAR 11, 2010 • Journal
Public Accountability and the Public Sphere of International Governance
Steffek advocates a return to a conception of public accountability as accountability to the wider public. He investigates the prospects for this beyond the state, ...
MAR 11, 2010 • Journal
Democracy in a Pluralist Global Order: Corporate Power and Stakeholder Representation
Global democratization cannot be achieved by simply replicating familiar democratic institutions on a global scale. We must explore alternative institutional means for establishing democratic institutions ...
MAR 11, 2010 • Journal
Introduction [Full Text]
If global democratization is to advance beyond the current point, it is necessary to confront the practical challenge of institutional design: How might ideals of ...
MAR 11, 2010 • Journal
The Politics of Punishing Terrorists [Full Text]
Debates about trying and punishing terrorists reveal how the failure to construct a shared normative consensus in international criminal justice continues to bedevil the international ...