Recent Articles
DEC 13, 2017 • Journal Online Exclusive
Governing Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems
The UN's first formal meeting on lethal autonomous weapon systems took place in November 2017. Unfortunately, the end of this first historic meeting brought agreement on ...
DEC 11, 2017 • Journal Online Exclusive
Jonathan D. Caverley on Slowing the Proliferation of Major Conventional Weapons
In this interview, Johnathan D. Caverley and John Krzyzaniak discuss how the United States, pursuing it's own self-interest, can slow the proliferation of major conventional ...
DEC 8, 2017 • Journal
Slowing the Proliferation of Major Conventional Weapons: The Virtues of an Uncompetitive Market
Proliferation of major conventional weapons (MCW) is at best a waste of valuable resources and at worst fuel for more and bloodier conflicts. In this ...
DEC 8, 2017 • Journal
The Need for Governance of Climate Geoengineering
In this essay, Janos Pasztor explains some of the major ethical issues surrounding geoengineering and introduces the Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative, a major new ...
DEC 8, 2017 • Journal
Introduction: The Roles of International Law and Just War Theory
This roundtable explores the complex relationship between the laws of war and just war theory, and emphasizes the continuing importance of maintaining parallel ethical and ...
DEC 8, 2017 • Journal
Just War Theory and the Laws of War as Nonidentical Twins
In this essay, David Luban examines the similarities, but even more the dissimilarities, between just war theory and the laws of war. Specifically, he argues ...
DEC 8, 2017 • Journal
Looking Inward Together: Just War Thinking and Our Shared Moral Emotions
In this essay Valerie Morkevicius argues that just war thinking serves a social and psychological role that international law cannot fill. Law is dispassionate and ...
DEC 8, 2017 • Journal
A Practically Informed Morality of War: Just War, International Law, and a Changing World Order
Just war, international law, and world order are all historically conditioned realities that interrelate with one another in complex ways. This essay explores their historical ...
DEC 8, 2017 • Journal
On the Relationship Between the Ethics and the Law of War: Cyber Operations and Sublethal Harm
This essay examines the 2013 Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare in order to illustrate the importance of both ethical and legal ...