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SEP 9, 2015 Journal

Global Moral Egalitarianism and Global Distributive Egalitarianism

A global egalitarian approach is better for characterizing the wrongs involved in international exploitation than a global sufficientarian approach.

SEP 9, 2015 Journal

Against Democratic Interventionism

While we should persuade foreigners to democratize, we have no right to forcibly impose a democratic political order on them so long as their current ...

SEP 9, 2015 Journal

The Ethics of Preventive War, Edited by Deen K. Chatterjee

Must states comply with the strict standards of international law when they have sound consequentialist reasons for waging preventive wars to avoid future threats of ...

SEP 9, 2015 Journal

International Judges: Is There a Global Ethic?

RICHARD J. GOLDSTONE Thousands of judges from across the globe now sit on international courts. It is time to systematically consider professional ethical standards.

SEP 9, 2015 Journal

Rescuing Democracy in the Age of the Internet

DAVID RUNCIMAN There is a growing awareness that the greatest threat to democracy may no longer derive from human agency, but from new forms of ...

SEP 9, 2015 Journal

The Paradox of Liberation by Michael Walzer

REVIEW BY GEORGE RUPP This book provides a masterly refutation of a remarkably resilient array of stereotypes about religion and secularism.

SEP 9, 2015 Journal

Rough Justice by David Bosco

This is the best account so far of the trajectory of the ICC from its optimistic origins to the more constrained court of today.

AUG 24, 2015 Podcast

Bridging the Civilian-Military Gap with Veterans4Diplomacy's Jayson Browder

"I think there's a new breed of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who are very entrepreneurial. A lot of the missions that they had in Iraq, ...

CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/trushu/524574337">Aaron Shumaker</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/">(CC)</a>

AUG 21, 2015 Podcast

Global Tax Avoidance: Who's Responsible?

We investigate the complex world of tax avoidance, starting with the mining industry in Zambia. Activists, documentarians, and economists give perspectives on how corporations avoid ...

(L to R) Dr. Ernest Moniz, John Kerry, Javad Zarif, Dr. Ali Akbar Salehi. CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/us-mission/16489523537">U.S. Mission Geneva/Eric Bridiers</a><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/"> (CC)</a>

AUG 20, 2015 Podcast

Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran: Assessment and Prospects

Professor Gary Sick, Iran expert at Columbia University and lead White House negotiator during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, assesses the merits of the recently negotiated ...