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MAR 12, 2009 Journal

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 ...

MAR 12, 2009 Journal

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.

MAR 12, 2009 Journal

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 ...

MAR 12, 2009 Journal

"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 ...

MAR 12, 2009 Journal Online Exclusive

For a Federation of Democracies (Response to Stephen Schlesinger)

Davenport argues for a federation of democracies to replace the United Nations Security Council. This new level of government, he says, is necessary to achieve ...

MAR 12, 2009 Journal

Democracies, Human Rights, and Collective Action

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 ...