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JUN 9, 2017 Journal

A Better Process, a Stronger UN Secretary-General: How Historic Change Was Forged and What Comes Next

In the past, UN secretaries-general were chosen on the basis of a haphazard and secretive process behind closed doors. Yet over the last two years, ...

JUN 9, 2017 Journal

Securing Protection for De Facto Refugees: The Case of Central America’s Northern Triangle

The Northern Triangle of Central America is one of the most violent regions of the world. However, those fleeing the violence are unable to find ...

JUN 9, 2017 Journal

Pro Mundo Mori? The Problem of Cosmopolitan Motivation in War

In this feature article, Lior Erez explores the problem of motivating soldiers to fight in cosmopolitan wars. First, he argues that the problem is best ...

JUN 9, 2017 Journal

Introduction: Legitimate Authority, War, and the Ethics of Rebellion

The three articles in this special section all investigate the idea that considerations of “legitimate authority” have a key role in constituting the modern idea ...

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 ...