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SEP 8, 2017 Journal

When Norms Collide: Local Responses to Activism against Female Genital Mutilation and Early Marriage by Karisa Cloward

In this book, Karissa Cloward employs a mixed-methods study to examine the ways that local communities react to transnational activism and international norm promotion. In ...

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.

Denzel Washington and Angela Bassett in <i>Malcolm X</i>. CREDIT: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104797/mediaviewer/rm105033728">Warner Bros.</a>

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 ...

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.

A community poll worker in Cabrican, Guatemala records the names of participants in the referendum and hands out ballots, October 2010. CREDIT: Katherine Fultz

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 ...

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?

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 ...