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DEC 7, 2018 Journal

Human Rights Under Attack: What Comes Next?

Micheline Ishay laments the recent onslaught against the human rights movement even from professed supporters, taking Samuel Moyn’s recent book Not Enough as indicative ...

DEC 7, 2018 Journal

Just Responsibility: A Human Rights Theory of Global Justice, by Brooke A. Ackerly

This book offers a clear argument for assuming political responsibility toward basic structures of injustice in the developing world.

DEC 7, 2018 Journal

Return of the Barbarians: Confronting Non-State Actors from Ancient Rome to the Present, by Jakub J. Grygiel

In this book, Jakub J. Grygiel provocatively shows how strategic actors beyond nation-states are making resurgence.

DEC 7, 2018 Journal

A Foreign Policy for the Left, by Michael Walzer

Michael Walzer’s new book brings together essays from the past sixteen years to offer pragmatic ethical guidance on matters of foreign policy.

DEC 7, 2018 Journal

Justice and Natural Resources: An Egalitarian Theory, by Chris Armstrong

Chris Armstrong defends a straightforward and highly plausible thesis: that the benefits and burdens associated with natural resources should be distributed so as to reduce ...

DEC 7, 2018 Journal

Principled Spying: The Ethics of Secret Intelligence, by David Omand and Mark Phythian

Principled Spying offers an interesting, thorough, and accessible engagement of the ethical issues associated with intelligence gathering and covert operations.

DEC 7, 2018 Journal

Briefly Noted: Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History, by Stephen D. King

A brief book review of Stephen D. King's Grave New World.

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DEC 6, 2018 Article

It's Time for the U.S. and Chinese Militaries to Cooperate on HADR

Relations between the U.S. and China are at their lowest point in decades. Joint Humanitarian and Disaster Response (HADR) would provide an effective mechanism ...

<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Protest_against_U.S._military_attacks_in_Syria_(33919232325).jpg">Protest against U.S. military attacks on Syria, April 2017</a>. CREDIT: Fibonacci Blue via Wikimedia Commons

DEC 5, 2018 Article

Misconnecting with the U.S. Public: Narrative Collapse and U.S. Foreign Policy

For the past year, the U.S. Global Engagement program has focused its attention on the continuing strengths and weaknesses of the narratives that can ...

European Parliament, Strasbourg. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/paulrobertlloyd/29652323774/">Paul Lloyd</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">CC</a>)

DEC 5, 2018 Article

Refining Strategic Autonomy: A Call for European Grand Strategy

Europe has come to realize that the United States is no longer the stalwart ally of the Cold War era. With the resurgence of China, ...