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DEC 7, 2018 Journal

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Seventy: Progress and Challenges

In this essay, Ş. İlgü Özler examines global progress toward achieving the ideals enshrined in the UDHR, which was adopted seventy years ago in 1948.

DEC 7, 2018 Journal

Introduction: Competing Visions for Cyberspace

This roundtable explores what the governance of cyberspace might look like if it were geared toward just one primary purpose, such as to advance human ...

DEC 7, 2018 Journal

Toward a Human-Centric Approach to Cybersecurity

This essay presents an approach to cybersecurity that is derived from the tradition of “human security.” This approach prioritizes the individual and views the Internet ...

DEC 7, 2018 Journal

Promoting Economic Prosperity in Cyberspace

This essay argues that the original policy foundations on which the Internet was built—including strong free speech protections, open technical standards, and privacy protection—...

DEC 7, 2018 Journal

What if Cyberspace Were for Fighting?

This essay explores the ethical and legal implications of prioritizing cyberspace as a warfighting domain. The authors envision a world where states take on a ...

DEC 7, 2018 Journal

Ethical Dilemmas in Cyberspace

This final roundtable essay steps back to highlight three broad issues that cut across the other contributions and raise ethical concerns about our activity online. ...

DEC 7, 2018 Journal

Reforming the Security Council through a Code of Conduct: A Sisyphean Task?

In this feature, Bolarinwa Adediran disputes the utility of a code of conduct to regulate the exercise of the veto at the UN Security Council ...

DEC 7, 2018 Journal

How Not to Do Things with International Law

In this review essay, Anne Peters considers Ian Hurd’s recent book How to Do Things with International Law. Peters argues that, although the book ...

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.