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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 ...

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 [...

OCT 15, 2002 Article

Held to Account: Governance in the World Economy

How can multilateral economic institutions tackle the crisis of effectiveness and the crisis of legitimacy they face today?  (Report on ...

OCT 11, 2002 Article

The Catholic Church and American Foreign Policy

This 2002 workshop focuses on the role of Catholicism in U.S. foreign policy. By examining how the American Catholic church has evolved in the United ...

The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics

OCT 1, 2002 Article

"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Mark Lilla, "The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics"

"Lilla's book summarizes the thought of some of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, some of whom are well known but others of ...