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MAR 31, 2007 Journal

Uganda's Civil War and the Politics of ICC Intervention

The International Criminal Court's intervention into the ongoing civil war in northern Uganda evoked a chorus of confident predictions as to its capacity to bring ...

MAR 31, 2007 Journal

The Human Rights Council: A New Era in UN Human Rights Work? [Full Text]

Kofi Annan did more than any UN secretary-general before him to stress the close link between human rights and peace and security. With the creation ...

MAR 31, 2007 Journal

Editors' Note [Full Text]

Sometimes change is revolutionary, but more often it tends to be evolutionary. That is why many readers might not even notice that there are a ...

MAR 31, 2007 Journal

The Good Fight: Why Liberals--and Only Liberals--Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again by Peter Beinart

Peter Beinart's new book offers the Democratic Party a "new liberalism," a vision he bases on the party's history of moral leadership and success in ...

MAR 31, 2007 Journal

A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France by Jennifer Pitts

Jennifer Pitts asserts that imperialism was not essential to the liberal project, as is so often alleged by its critics, most recently and systematically by ...

MAR 31, 2007 Journal

Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights by Carol C. Gould

Although the focus of "Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights" is practical, Gould does not shy away from hard theoretical questions, such as the relentless debate ...

MAR 31, 2007 Journal

Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues by Catharine A. MacKinnon

Catharine MacKinnon's fundamental claim is that the violence and abuse routinely inflicted on women by men is not treated with the same seriousness accorded to ...

MAR 31, 2007 Journal

Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny by Amartya Sen and Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers by Kwame Anthony Appiah

These two books are the inaugural releases in Norton's Issues of Our Time series, but they are linked by much more than this fact. Each ...

Ecuadorian schoolchildren in The Village Education Project

MAR 21, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Building The Village Education Project

After teaching elementary school for ten weeks in a small village in rural Ecuador, I came away from the experience with a lot more than ...

Gods War: A New History of the Crusades

MAR 20, 2007 Article

"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Christopher Tyerman, "God's War: A New History of the Crusades"

Tyerman lays out the New Testament tradition at the beginning of his treatise on the Crusades, raising the immediate question: how did Crusaders manage to ...