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JUN 16, 2016 • Article
Integration and the European Migration "Crisis"
How we treat the millions arriving in Europe will affect all our futures, writes migration expert Jenny Phillimore. "We can genuinely welcome people, accept them ...
JUN 16, 2016 • Journal Online Exclusive
Why we need better central bank accountability
As pundits debate whether the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates again this summer or fall, we are reminded of just how much of ...
JUN 15, 2016 • Article
The Progressive's Paradox
Can left-wing ideologies ever co-exist comfortably with military intervention? U.S. foreign policy over the past two decades has failed to align squarely with the ...
JUN 10, 2016 • Journal Online Exclusive
Pacta Sunt Servanda, Treaties, and the U.S. Election
How would each presidential candidate approach what is one of the bedrock ethical principles of how the United States conducts foreign policy: pacta sunt servanda, ...
JUN 10, 2016 • Journal
Equal Recognition: The Moral Foundations of Minority Rights
Alan Patten’s Equal Recognition is the most significant systematic attempt at deriving a theory of minority rights from the basic tenets of liberalism since ...
JUN 10, 2016 • Journal
Scientists at War: The Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research
In this important new work, historian Sarah Bridger explores the ambivalent role of scientists in U.S. policy debates over national defense issues from the 1950...
JUN 10, 2016 • Journal
Sexualities in World Politics: How LGBTQ Claims Shape International Relations
As states mobilize popular sentiment, diplomatic pressure, and foreign aid over the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) persons, it is no ...
JUN 10, 2016 • Journal
When Democracies Denationalize: The Epistemological Case against Revoking Citizenship
Discomfort with denationalization spans both proceduralist and consequentialist objections. I augment Patti Lenard’s arguments against denationalization with an epistemological argument. What makes denationalization problematic ...
JUN 10, 2016 • Journal
The Democratic Roots of Expatriation
Patti Tamara Lenard assesses the justifications given for the right to revoke citizenship in democratic states and concludes that this practice is inconsistent with a ...
JUN 10, 2016 • Journal
Democracy, Exile, and Revocation
What first caught my eye when reading Patti Lenard’s clear and carefully argued critique of citizenship revocation was a claim at the end of ...