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SEP 9, 2019 • Journal
Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
Contemporary global justice theorists have largely neglected the transnational aspirations of the post-1945 decolonization movement, instead seeing it as solely a movement for countries to ...
SEP 9, 2019 • Journal
Negotiating Peace: A Guide to the Practice, Politics, and Law of International Mediation
Sir Winston Churchill is often credited with the phrase “To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war.” Over the last twenty years, the desire to be ...
SEP 9, 2019 • Journal
Injustice: Political Theory for the Real World
In Injustice: Political Theory for the Real World, Michael Goodhart claims that the dominant paradigm's quest for “spotless” justice blinds scholars to the lived injustices ...
SEP 9, 2019 • Journal
Humanitarian Action and Ethics
This edited volume from Ayesha Ahmad and James Smith offers an expansive tour across the difficult landscape of ethical conundrums in humanitarian action, traversing issues ...
SEP 9, 2019 • Journal
Briefly Noted
In his latest book, Marcus Schulzke analyzes the ethical traditions of three national militaries—the U.S. Army, the British Army and Royal Marine Commandos, ...
SEP 9, 2019 • Journal
A Human Rights Approach to Conflict Resolution
The role of human rights abuses in the causes, dynamics, and consequences of conflict illustrate the importance of a human rights approach to conflict resolution: ...
SEP 9, 2019 • Article
Transactionalism and U.S. Foreign Aid
A draft of a new presidential directive on American foreign aid suggests that transactionalism will shift from being a rhetorical device to an actual defining ...
SEP 6, 2019 • Journal Online Exclusive
Transactionalism and U.S. Foreign Aid
One of the critical questions we have been grappling with since Donald Trump's election is the extent to which a transactional calculus would come to ...
SEP 4, 2019 • Article
What is the Status Quo for the Climate?
At various points in history, changes in climate contributed to the movement of people and the collapse of empires. How will the current changes in ...
SEP 3, 2019 • Journal Online Exclusive
What is the Status Quo for the Climate?
I have been reading an interesting book by Sarah Parcak called Archaeology from Space: How The Future Shapes our Past.