Recent Articles
DEC 10, 2002 • Article
Environmental Values, Policy, and Conflict in India
Many think that Indian environmentalism arose in opposition to an anti-environmental government (as well as, at an earlier point, British colonial rule), leading to "a ...
DEC 9, 2002 • Article
International Labour Standards and Social Policy Principles
Fundamental labour rights such as freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining, as enshrined in the principles of the International Labor Organiztion (ILO), ...
DEC 9, 2002 • Article
Access to Basic Social Services: Human Rights that Make Excellent Economic Sense
Paper presented at the workshop on Social Policy Principles and The Social Development Agenda, Pocantico Conference Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, December 3-5, 1999
DEC 9, 2002 • Article
The State and the New Geography of Power: Privatized Norm-making and De-nationalized Government Agendas
The general question organizing this paper concerns the impact of economic globalization on the territorial jurisdiction, or more theoretically, the exclusive territoriality of the nation ...
DEC 6, 2002 • Article
Legitimizing the Use of Force in Kosovo
Kosovo was not the first military campaign termed a "humanitarian intervention." But it did rekindle debate on whether and when a state or group of ...
DEC 2, 2002 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Philip Kitcher, "Science, Truth, and Democracy"
Kitcher cuts a clear path between those who worship science as a religion and those who fashionably insist that science is merely a set of ...
NOV 18, 2002 • Article
Monitoring Global Poverty: Better Options for the Future
How many poor people are there in the world? Are their numbers increasing or decreasing? Professor Sanjay Reddy argues that the answers ...
NOV 13, 2002 • Article
Civilians and War: Dilemmas in Law and Morality
Rules for distinguishing between civilians and soldiers during armed conflict have been around since the medieval period, but the debate surrounding recent civilian deaths in ...
NOV 1, 2002 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Paul Woodruff, "Reverence"
Woodruff doesn't lament the absence of reverence in our life; he asks us to discover it where it already is. We could not live ...
OCT 20, 2002 • Article
Threats Beyond the Headlines
"One unintended danger of our hedgehog-like focus on the war against terrorism is that it squeezes the public space available to air other issues, increasing [...