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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 ...
JUN 10, 2016 • Journal
Patti Tamara Lenard Replies
Is the revocation of citizenship—a policy increasingly adopted by democratic states—a violation of democratic principles? In an article published in the Spring 2016 issue ...
JUN 10, 2016 • Journal
Rethinking Central Bank Accountability in Uncertain Times
As the dust has settled following the 2008 financial crisis and the economic dislocations that ensued, it has become clear that central banks have gained considerably ...
JUN 10, 2016 • Journal
Should We Take the "Human" Out of Human Rights? Human Dignity in a Corporate World
In recent years philosophical discussions of human rights have focused on the question of whether “humanist” and “political” conceptions of human rights are genuinely incompatible ...