Recent Articles
MAR 12, 2009 • Journal
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
MAR 12, 2009 • Journal
The End of the West? Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order by Jeffrey Anderson, G. John Ikenberry, and Thomas Risse
This edited collection takes stock of the state of the Western alliance, seeking both to improve our theoretical understanding of conflict and crisis and to ...
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Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization by David Singh Grewal
According to Grewal, we need to understand globalization as a process in which we participate by choice but not necessarily voluntarily—one in which common ...
MAR 12, 2009 • Journal
International Trade and Labor Standards: A Proposal for Linkage by Christian Barry and Sanjay G. Reddy
Barry and Reddy challenge us to envision a world where workers everywhere can make a living wage in safe conditions and globalization does not drive ...
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Democracy Across Borders: Dêmos to Dêmoiby James Bohman
Bohman notes the extensive interdependence that characterizes the new circumstances of global politics, and argues that states have reacted either by strengthening state boundaries and ...
MAR 12, 2009 • Journal
The Moral Force of Indigenous Politics: Critical Liberalism and the Zapatistas by Courtney Jung
Jung offers a normatively informed and empirically grounded critique of approaches that justify minority rights on the basis of the need to protect culture.
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Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity by Will Kymlicka
Kymlicka extends his well known and widely respected defense of a liberal conception of multiculturalism to all states of the world, and asks causal questions ...
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"Torture Lite": A Response
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. ...
MAR 12, 2009 • Journal
The Myth of "Torture Lite"
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 ...
MAR 12, 2009 • Journal
Populism and Democracy in Latin America
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 ...