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DEC 13, 2002 Article

Feature Articles from Inprint Newsletter (2001–2004): Justice after War

On October 11, 2002, President Bush back-pedaled from a suggested plan to install an American-led military government in Iraq, stating that the United States "would never seek ...

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 ...

Science, Truth, and Democracy

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 ...

Reverence

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 ...