Articles & Reports

MAR 12, 2009 • Journal

A morally significant distinction between full torture and torture lite, says Sussman, would attend to the role that fear and hope play in the experience. ...

By David Sussman

MAR 12, 2009 • Journal

Although the term "torture lite" is frequently used to distinguish between physically mutilating torture and certain interrogation methods that are supposedly less severe, the distinction ...

By Jessica Wolfendale

MAR 12, 2009 • Journal

The populism that is sweeping Latin America seeks, like democracy, to enact the sovereign rule of the people. Nevertheless, democrats and populists diverge over how ...

By Francisco Panizza & Romina Miorelli

MAR 12, 2009 • Journal

A caucus of democracies and liberal states within the UN could aim to crosscut the UN's deeply entrenched hegemonic voting patterns and support and celebrate ...

By Ruth Wedgwood

MAR 12, 2009 • Journal

A "League of Democracies," according to Mahbubani, will divide the world at the very time that a new global consensus needs to be created to ...

By Kishore Mahbubani

MAR 12, 2009 • Journal

The proposal for a league of democracies is fraught with a number of fundamental flaws. In fact, much of what these democracy strategists are seeking ...

By Stephen Schlesinger

MAR 12, 2009 • Journal

Over a whole range of challenges, the world is essentially undergoverned. New institutions are needed that recognize how much the world has changed and that ...

By James M. Lindsay

MAR 12, 2009 • Journal

The idea that democratic states should establish exclusive venues for international cooperation provides an opportunity for reflection on the global role of the U.S. ...