Recent Articles
NOV 16, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Selling Security
When the traditional tasks of national militaries are delegated to private military firms, civil authorities enter into two contracts with them: commercial and moral. If ...
NOV 15, 2007 • Journal
The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers by Ngaire Woods
Woods is an insightful and thoughtful authority on the Bretton Woods institutions. In this book she examines their activities and focuses on their engagements with ...
NOV 15, 2007 • Journal
All Politics Is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes by Daniel Drezner
At a time when many international relations scholars are qualifying their premature predictions of the withering of the state, Daniel Drezner's new book makes a ...
NOV 15, 2007 • Journal
Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad: In Search of Knowledge, edited by Thomas Carothers
This book is an attempt to collect some of the little known about Rule-of-law (ROL) reform, and it does this creditably. Although the book's contributors ...
NOV 15, 2007 • Journal
Does Foreign Aid Really Work? by Roger C. Riddell & Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development, Domestic Politics by Carol Lancaster
These two recent works by Roger C. Riddell and Carol Lancaster display a sober understanding of aid challenges, present a balanced view of the context ...
NOV 15, 2007 • Journal
The Rules of War [Full Text]
These three books show how the enduring principles of just war theory can be applied insightfully and fruitfully to even the latest kinds of conflict, ...
NOV 15, 2007 • Journal
States of Risk: Should Cosmopolitans Favor Their Compatriots?
This article claims that it is not mutual benefit but mutual risk that grounds compatriot preference. Exposure to risks such as state abuse provide us ...
NOV 15, 2007 • Journal
Human Rights Versus Emissions Rights: Climate Justice and the Equitable Distribution of Ecological Space
Arguing that issues of both emissions and subsistence should be comprehended within a single framework of justice, the proposal here is that this broader framework ...
NOV 15, 2007 • Journal
American Religious NGOs in North Korea: A Paradoxical Relationship
Despite North Korea's antipathy to outside religious influence, it is primarily American NGOs with financial backing from religious organizations that have maintained development and exchange ...
NOV 15, 2007 • Journal
Expanding Europe: The Ethics of EU-Turkey Relations
The possible future EU membership of Turkey has become one of the most hotly debated topics both in the EU and within Turkey itself. Underlying ...