Recent Articles
DEC 15, 2009 • Journal
The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Edited by Thomas Brudholm and Thomas Cushman
What is the contribution of religious discourse to a productive and reconciliatory response to mass atrocities? In this wide-ranging book, scholars address the philosophical, ethical, ...
DEC 15, 2009 • Journal
War, Torture and Terrorism: Rethinking the Rules of International Security Edited by Anthony F. Lang, Jr., and Amanda Russell Beattie
This volume provides a fresh and engaging set of discussions, approaches, and case studies on how rules established to promote peaceful international order can instead ...
DEC 15, 2009 • Journal
In Pursuit of Peace
Traditional international relations scholarship has concentrated on war, but has not provided deep theoretical consideration of the concept of peace.While the focus of each ...
DEC 15, 2009 • Journal
An Ethic of Political Reconciliation
The core proposition of this article is that reconciliation, both as a process and an end state, is a concept of justice. Its animating virtue ...
DEC 15, 2009 • Journal
Categorizing Groups, Categorizing States: Theorizing Minority Rights in a World of Deep Diversity
Kymlicka believes that it is Walzer's idiosyncratic approach to categorization—more than his controversial theory of justice-as-common-meanings—which explains his relatively marginal role in the ...
DEC 15, 2009 • Journal
A Few Words on Mill, Walzer, and Nonintervention
Comparing Mill's "Non-Intervention" and Walzer's "Just and Unjust Wars" (1977) links two classic statements on just wars of intervention. Doyle concludes that interventionist arguments should go ...
DEC 15, 2009 • Journal
The Moral Standing of States Revisited
"The Moral Standing of States" is the title of an essay Michael Walzer wrote in response to four critics of the theory of nonintervention defended ...
DEC 15, 2009 • Journal
Introduction [Full Text]
This symposium is comprised of three key articles from a 2008 conference to honor Michael Walzer. Each article discusses one of the most fundamental aspects of ...
DEC 8, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Building Sustainability for PlaNYC
If New York's Greener, Greater Buildings Plan becomes law this week it will be a significant step toward urban environmental sustainability. Can the policies transfer ...
DEC 4, 2009 • Article
Rationing Healthcare? We're Already Doing It
The question today is not whether to start rationing healthcare. We are already rationing, based in large part on the ability to pay. The question ...