Recent Articles
JUN 9, 2017 • Journal
Legitimate Authority and the Ethics of War: A Map of the Terrain
In this article, Jonathan Parry challenges both the traditional conception of the legitimate authority criterion as well as those reductivists who reject it wholesale. Specifically, ...
JUN 9, 2017 • Journal
Does Who Matter? Legal Authority and the Use of Military Violence
In this article, Pål Wrange demonstrates that in international law there is no consistent, over-arching conception of proper authority. Instead, he concludes, there exists ...
JUN 9, 2017 • Journal
The Perspective of the Rebel: A Gap in the Global Normative Architecture
In this article, Christopher Finlay writes that the failure to take account of what he calls the “Rebel Perspective” constitutes a source of instability within ...
JUN 9, 2017 • Journal
Shifting International Security Norms
In this review essay, Denise Garcia draws on two recent books to argue that new technology can reinforce security norms just as easily as it ...
JUN 9, 2017 • Journal
Preventive Force: Drones, Targeted Killing, and the Transformation of Contemporary Warfare, Kerstin Fisk and Jennifer M. Ramos, eds.
This collection of eleven original articles presents a wide variety of perspectives on what the moral and legal framework for preventive use of force by ...
JUN 9, 2017 • Journal
Rethinking the New World Order by Georg Sørensen
This book provides an elegant account of the nature and inherent tensions in global order. By engaging with ongoing theoretical debates between liberal optimists and ...
MAY 30, 2017 • Journal Online Exclusive
Upcoming Conferences of Interest 2017-2018
We have compiled a list of upcoming conferences related to the fields of ethics and international affairs through the middle of 2018. We hope you find ...
MAY 25, 2017 • Journal Online Exclusive
What We’ve Been Reading
Welcome to our roundup of news and current events related to ethics and international affairs! Here’s what we’ve been reading this month.