Recent Articles
APR 11, 2017 • Journal Online Exclusive
Tomahawk Foreign Policy: Trump and The Use of Force Short of War
What can just war thinking and the use of force short of war tell us about Trump's strike against Syria?
APR 1, 2017 • Journal
Spring 2017 (31.1)
The Spring 2017 issue includes essays by Michael Ignatieff on human rights and the ordinary virtues; Kristy A. Belton on the prospect of ending statelessness in ...
MAR 28, 2017 • Article
President Trump's Dangerous Foreign Policy Know-Nothingism and the Lessons of Nixon and Kennedy
Kennedy kept his cool. Nixon fell to pieces. How will Trump behave under stress--a president who not only lacks a coherent theory of statecraft or ...
MAR 22, 2017 • Article
No Place for Eritreans
Eritreans are fleeing their repressive homeland at the rate of 5,000 a month. Yet once they manage to leave, new dangers await these hapless refugees, from ...
MAR 10, 2017 • Journal
Human Rights, Global Ethics, and the Ordinary Virtues
Drawing on research from site-visits to eight countries, this essay explores whether human rights has become a global ethic, and, if so, how the concept ...
MAR 10, 2017 • Journal
Heeding the Clarion Call in the Americas: The Quest to End Statelessness
In 2014, the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees launched the #IBelong Campaign to eradicate statelessness by 2024. Given that UN Secretary-General António ...
MAR 10, 2017 • Journal
Rethinking the Concept of a “Durable Solution”: Sahrawi Refugee Camps Four Decades On
The Sahrawi people have been housed in refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria since 1975. This essay uses the case of the Sahrawi to illustrate the problematic ...
MAR 10, 2017 • Journal
Introduction: The Responsibility to Protect and the Refugee Protection Regime
Would states be moved to take in more refugees if the problem was framed explicitly in terms of the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP)? In January 2016, ...
MAR 10, 2017 • Journal
Shame on EU? Europe, RtoP, and the Politics of Refugee Protection
In this feature, Dan Bulley argues that there is little to be gained by invoking the RtoP norm in the context of the refugee crisis. ...
MAR 10, 2017 • Journal
Capable and Culpable? The United States, RtoP, and Refugee Responsibility-Sharing
In this feature, Alise Coen takes as given that facilitating refugee protection represents an essential step towards upholding the norm of RtoP. By examining the ...