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DEC 5, 1999 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 1 (Winter 2000): Human Rights for All? The Problem of the Human Rights Box: Articles: The Credibility Crisis of International Human Rights in the Arab World

International groups should collaborate with the local Arab movement to develop strategies to build the moral standing of human rights among the public and improve ...

OCT 9, 1999 Article

The High Road and the Low Road to International Competitiveness

Is there an alternative to wage- and benefit-cutting in the face of the heightened competitive pressure created by globalization?

JUN 9, 1999 Article

Ethics, Actors, and Global Economic Architecture

Report based on a workshop on Ethics, Actors, and Global Economic Architecture at the Pocantico Conference Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, June 3-5, 1999.

MAY 20, 1999 Article

Evaluating Justice and Reconciliation Efforts

There seems to be a great desire for what some people have called “moral accounting” at the end of the 20th century. For example, the ...

MAY 12, 1999 Article

Morgenthau Lectures (1981–2006): National Interest in the Information Age

Nye provides several reasons why the information age is likely to enhance rather than diminish American power.

DEC 31, 1998 Article

Public Philosophy Monographs (1998): Community, Contract, and the Death of Social Citizenship

This article traces the death of the idea of social citizenship--a consensus among the public that citizens are entitled to social as well as civil ...

DEC 30, 1998 Article

Public Philosophy Monographs (1998): Is There a Public Philosophy in Central-Eastern Europe? Equity and Distribution 'Then' and 'Now'

After the regime change in Hungary the neoliberal/neoconservative orthodoxy has emerged as the dominant public philosophy, breaking the bonds between and within generations, between ...

DEC 13, 1998 Article

Public Philosophy Monographs (1998): Social Policy in the UK: Creating a New Social Contract

The monographs, and the program, aim to develop a more nuanced understanding of the values underlying public policies in this era of globalization.

DEC 11, 1998 Article

Nizer Lectures (1994–1998): The Destiny of Freedom: Political Legacies of the Twentieth Century

Speaking in 1998, Dr. Buultjens identifies a recurring cycle of conflict followed by political and economic disintegration that distinguishes the 20th century. He asks: "Do we ...