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JUN 8, 2018 • Journal
The Irony of Just War
This review essay examines a series of benchmark books on the ethics of war published over the past year. All three grapple with the hard ...
JUN 8, 2018 • Journal
Toward a Global Water Ethic: Learning from Indigenous Communities
This review essay draws on three important new contributions to the water governance literature to suggest that insights from indigenous communities’ more holistic and long-term ...
JUN 8, 2018 • Journal
International Criminal Tribunals: A Normative Defense, by Larry May and Shannon Fyfe
Larry May and Shannon Fyfe take up a wide range of critiques that scholars and others have leveled at international criminal tribunals and argue that ...
JUN 8, 2018 • Journal
Gender, UN Peacebuilding, and the Politics of Space: Locating Legitimacy, by Laura J. Shepherd
Through rigorous and rich discourse analysis, Laura J. Shepherd interrogates not only how the UN understands peacebuilding itself but also how it understands gender, women, ...
JUN 8, 2018 • Journal
Just War Thinkers: From Cicero to the 21st Century, edited by Daniel R. Brunstetter and Cian O’Driscoll
This volume provides an overview of the development of just war thinking over the centuries through a series of contextualized snapshots of individuals whose work ...
JUN 8, 2018 • Journal
The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World, by Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro
In this book, Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro investigate the history, nature, and impact of the international legal prohibition on the use of ...
JUN 5, 2018 • Article
The Impeachment of South Korean President Park Geun-hye
This report explores the timeline and details of South Korean President Park Geun-hye's impeachment, and the aftermath that followed. Park Geun-hye's history begins with her ...
JUN 4, 2018 • Journal Online Exclusive
Golden Visas, Dreamers, & Ethics in Immigration, with Ayelet Shachar
In this interview, Ayelet Shachar discusses the ethical issues surrounding golden visa programs, and draws a contrast between golden visa "Parachuters" on one hand and "...
MAY 30, 2018 • Article
Why is the Media Unfair to the United Nations?
Journalist Javier Delgado Rivera covers the UN regularly. He lays out the many and complex reasons why the media coverage of the UN focuses on ...
MAY 29, 2018 • Article
The Ethics of Triage
Carnegie Council senior fellow Nikolas Gvosdev outlines the concept of "democracy triage." This policy recommendation proposes that democracy promotion efforts be focused on a fewer ...