Recent Articles
JUN 30, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Mozambique: The "Poster Child" Under Review
A new war is being waged on Mozambique's environment. The forests are being destroyed by slash and burn agriculture, firewood and charcoal production, and over-harvesting ...
JUN 24, 2009 • Article
Leadership as Practical Ethics
What does one need to know to be a leader in the field of public policy? Joel Rosenthal argues for the centrality of ethics as ...
JUN 24, 2009 • Journal
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
JUN 24, 2009 • Journal
Embedded Cosmopolitanism: Duties to Strangers and Enemies in a World of ‘Dislocated Communities’ by Toni Erskine
The ongoing debate about the importance of promoting an idea of shared human identity that is not mediated by any personal connection, particularly in times ...
JUN 24, 2009 • Journal
Defending Humanity: When Force is Justified and Why by George Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin
The authors seek a legal foundation for humanitarian intervention without Security Council authorization squarely within the UN Charter's Article 51, which grants UN members an "inherent ...
JUN 24, 2009 • Journal
On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society by Andrew Hurrell
"This is one of the finest books on the normative dimension of global governance published in the past decade," writes reviewer Samuel Makinda. "[It] should ...
JUN 24, 2009 • Journal
The Refugee in International Society: Between Sovereigns by Emma Haddad
How is it that within a couple of short decades refugees in European public perception went from being the archetypal "heroes" of the international system ...
JUN 24, 2009 • Journal
The Norms and Politics of Exit: Ending Postconflict Transitional Administrations
This paper examines the impact of the liberal-democratic norms governing statebuilding operations on the timing and process of exit of post-conflict international transitional administrations.
JUN 24, 2009 • Journal
Just and Unjust Postwar Reconstruction: How Much External Interference Can Be Justified
This article discusses various approaches to "shared responsibility" in recent international reconstruction efforts in war-torn societies and speculates about how best to ensure a timely ...
JUN 24, 2009 • Journal
Moral Responsibilities and the Conflicting Demands of Jus Post Bellum [Abstract]
The inclusion of jus post bellum in just war theory may be justified. But, according to Evans, it becomes problematic when confronted with tenets of "...