Recent Articles
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin edited by George Crowder and Henry Hardy
This is a collection of 13 essays, all but two of which are newly commissioned, covering Berlin's multifaceted oeuvre as much as a single book can. ...
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy by J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley C. Parks
Part of what makes Roberts and Parks's argument unusual and original is not the end point—that ultimately we will all need to radically cut ...
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Who Owes What to the Very Poor? edited by Thomas Pogge
All the contributors to this impressive volume agree that freedom from poverty is a basic human right, but they differ in how best to argue ...
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
Bioethics and Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of Medicine and War by Michael L. Gross
This book is important as an analysis of some of the least-discussed dilemmas related to warfare. But its value extends beyond its novel subject matter ...
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
International Legitimacy and World Society by Ian Clark
Clark seems caught not just between two concepts—international and world society—but between his two goals: the historical goal of recovering the politics of ...
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
Expanding the Boundaries of Transitional Justice
This essay examines "Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies," Alexander Mayer-Rieckh and Pablo de Greiff eds., and "What Happened to the Women? ...
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
Immigration Policy and "Immanent Critique"
Carens's use of 'immanent critique' to ground his moral prescriptions on the not yet realized normative purposes of the immigration policies of liberal democratic states ...
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
Migrants and Work-related Rights
Carens's discussion of the work-related rights of irregular migrants fails to consider the differentiated employment rights of legal temporary migrants, permanent residents, and citizens.
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
Irregular Migrants: An Alternative Perspective
While accepting Carens's view that irregular migrants can rightfully claim from the state protection of human rights, Miller disagrees that such migrants can claim rights ...
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
The Elusive Rights of an Invisible Population
Carens's suggestion for a so-called firewall protecting irregular migrants' basic rights creates serious problems of coherence and feasibility for the legal and political systems of ...