Recent Articles
MAR 31, 2004 • Article
Promoting Democracy through International Law
Failing to draw adequately on international law, the model of democracy promoted by the Bush administration is neither effective nor legitimate in the eyes of ...
MAR 23, 2004 • Article
Responsibility and Global Labor Justice
Who should take responsibility for the global labor injustices that are manifested in the existence of sweatshops in the apparel industry? And, what is the ...
MAR 4, 2004 • Article
From Andrew Carnegie to Hans Morgenthau: A Lesson in Ethics and International Affairs
Carnegie and Morgenthau make an instructive pairing. Carnegie, an idealist, stood for “never again war,” while Morgenthau stood for “never again genocide.” Nobody wants to ...
MAR 4, 2004 • Article
Feature Articles from Inprint Newsletter (2001–2004): Response to "Promoting Democracy in a Divided World"
Omar Noman takes issue with several of Andrew Kuper's ideas on promoting democracy.
MAR 4, 2004 • Article
Feature Articles from Inprint Newsletter (2001–2004): From Andrew Carnegie to Hans Morgenthau
Carnegie and Morgenthau make an instructive pair, explains Council President Joel Rosenthal. Carnegie, an idealist, stood for "never again war," while Morgenthau stood for "never ...
MAR 2, 2004 • Article
Morgenthau Lecture: The Future of Humanitarianism
Doctors Without Borders co-founder Bernard Kouchner says the globalization of human rights is a sign of moral progress with successes in Kosovo and East Timor.
MAR 2, 2004 • Article
Feature Articles from Inprint Newsletter (2001–2004): Fighting for the Environment -- and Getting Democracy
"I [spoke] with a Chinese environmentalist who was a high school student at the time of Tiananmen. He said he had watched the democracy demonstrations ...
MAR 1, 2004 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Anne Matthews, "Wild Nights: Nature Returns to the City"
This is an environmental jeremiad with a difference. No complaining here, no direct appeal for a harmony between humankind and nature. Matthews’s eye is ...
FEB 17, 2004 • Article
Historical Memory and the Building of Democracy in Iraq
Report of an 2/17/04 "Beyond History and Memory" seminar, a series cosponsored by the Council's History and the Politics of Reconciliation Program and Columbia University.
FEB 2, 2004 • Article
Desolation and Enlightenment--History or Memory?
The "desolation" of the 20th century--the total war of the two World Wars, the totalitarian regimes of both the right and left, and the Holocaust--has ...