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JUN 8, 2018 Journal

The Social Cost of International Investment Agreements: The Case of Cigarette Packaging

In this essay, Jennifer L. Tobin argues that international investment agreements impinge on states’ domestic regulatory sovereignty in unforeseen ways, and that these hidden social ...

JUN 8, 2018 Journal

Extractivism, Gender, and Disease: An Intersectional Approach to Inequalities

In this essay, Cristina Cielo and Lisset Coba use the case of the refinery city of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, to show that the negative impacts of ...

JUN 8, 2018 Journal

Threats and Coercive Diplomacy: An Ethical Analysis

Threats of armed force are frequently employed in international affairs, yet they have received little ethical scrutiny in their own right. This article addresses that ...

JUN 8, 2018 Journal

Temporary Labor Migration within the EU as Structural Injustice

Temporary labor migration (TLM) constitutes a significant trend of migration movements within the European Union, yet it has received scant attention in normative migration debates. ...

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 ...