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SEP 8, 2017 • Journal
Power Shift: On the New Global Order by Richard Falk
Richard Falk’s most recent book is full of interesting insights and displays an impressive degree of rhetorical power. Collectively, these essays demonstrate, rather convincingly, ...
SEP 8, 2017 • Journal
Briefly Noted
A brief book review of Susan P. Murphy's Responsibility in an Interconnected World: International Assistance, Duty, and Action.
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AUG 29, 2017 • Article
Ethics on Film: Discussion of "Malcolm X"
Malcolm X is seen by some as a symbol of the enduring struggle for equal rights for all human beings; but for others his legacy ...
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AUG 23, 2017 • Article
Foreword to Volume "Just War Thinkers: From Cicero to the 21st Century"
This book tells the story of the just war through its main protagonists. Each chapter gives insight into the life and times of the most ...
AUG 23, 2017 • Journal Online Exclusive
The Perils of Virtue Signaling in Foreign Policy
Virtue signaling that is detached from achievable outcomes is an ethically-worse option.
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AUG 9, 2017 • Article
Community Referenda on Mining in Guatemala
Katherine Fultz spent a total of three years in Guatemala studying environmental and cultural politics. "By using referenda to make a statement about mining," she ...
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AUG 2, 2017 • Journal Online Exclusive
“Victory” In Mosul: Fighting Well and the Horrors of “Winning”
Mosul illustrates how victory at all costs is no victory at all, and why contemporary just war thinkers need to re-conceptualize the idea of victory.
JUL 26, 2017 • Journal Online Exclusive
"Homo Economicus" and the Sanctions Tax
Do sanctions actually work, or do citizens in target countries simply factor the "sanctions tax" into their broader calculations of economic well-being?
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JUL 24, 2017 • Journal Online Exclusive
The Costs of Solar Geoengineering
While Harvard’s research program could help us to better understand solar geoengineering, they should be careful not to oversell their program at the cost ...
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JUL 17, 2017 • Article
Recalibrating the U.S. Strategy for the War on Drugs
With Mexico in mind, it's time the U.S. recalibrated its strategy for the decades-long War on Drugs. "A policy that addresses the violent threat ...