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SEP 15, 2016 • Journal
Recognition: A Short History
During the past decade there has been a resurgence of interest in the concept of recognition in international theory. Once the narrow concern of social ...
SEP 15, 2016 • Journal
Swedish Feminist Foreign Policy in the Making: Ethics, Politics, and Gender
In 2014 the world’s first self-defined feminist government was formed in Sweden. As part of that ambitious declaration, Sweden also became the first state ever ...
SEP 15, 2016 • Journal
Realpolitik: A History by John Bew
Realpolitik is back—or if not back, at least enjoying a day in the sun more fully than it has for several decades. Chastened by ...
SEP 15, 2016 • Journal
Can Microfinance Work? How to Improve Its Ethical Balance and Effectiveness by Lesley Sherratt
By 2009 the reckless greed of subprime mortgage lenders in the United States had become clear. Housing prices had collapsed by 30 percent or more, and families, ...
SEP 15, 2016 • Journal
Briefly Noted
Democratic peace theory rests on the largely untested assumption that leaders of liberal democratic states will be held publicly accountable for the costs of war.
SEP 8, 2016 • Article
Sze Ping Lo: Towards a New Environmental Imagination
Sze Ping Lo, CEO of WWF-China, is equal parts activist and intellectual. Now in his early 40s, in a recent conversation Lo looked back on ...
SEP 7, 2016 • Article
Greece, the Greeks, and the Crisis: Reaching Beyond "That's how it Goes"
Understandably, international attention focuses on the sufferings of migrants arriving in Greece. But what of the Greeks themselves? Though largely invisible to tourists, the country's ...
AUG 30, 2016 • Article
Ethics on Film: Discussion of "Food, Inc."
This documentary takes a close look at the U.S. food industry and finds that cheap food is costly and sometimes deadly to the environment, ...
AUG 22, 2016 • Journal Online Exclusive
The Stateless and the New UN Secretary-General
When it comes to the crisis of the stateless—those who have fled their homes, been ejected from their states by war, conflict, natural disasters ...