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JUL 16, 2014 • Journal Online Exclusive
July 1914: Sean McMeekin on the Outbreak of World War I
Prior to WWI, says McMeekin, no one in Europe or elsewhere in the world—except the perpetrators—had any inkling that an avoidable act of ...
JUL 1, 2014 • Podcast
Trust and Economic Growth in China
With 30 years of growth under its belt, has China joined the ranks of "developed" economies like the United States and Japan? What are obstacles to ...
JUL 1, 2014 • Journal
Summer 2014 (28.2)
This issue features essays by Roger Berkowitz on "Drones and the Question of 'The Human'" and Alan Sussman on the philosophical foundations of human rights; ...
JUN 27, 2014 • Journal Online Exclusive
Cataclysm: David Stevenson on World War I as Political Tragedy
For Stevenson, we must conclude that–although there were mitigating circumstances–Germany was centrally involved in the escalation of the crisis in July and August 1914.
JUN 24, 2014 • Journal Online Exclusive
What Metrics for Assessing the Ethics of Intervention?
Despite the predictions of the optimists in both the Bush and Obama administrations, U.S. interventions to remove undeniably brutal dictators from power have not ...
JUN 23, 2014 • Podcast
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
How did the Arab Revolt and Lawrence of Arabia shape the Middle East? And how are Lawrence's actions of a century ago still being felt ...
JUN 12, 2014 • Podcast
A Conversation with Law Professor and Columnist Rosa Brooks on Obama's Foreign Policy
With an insider's perspective, Rosa Brooks candidly discusses U.S. foreign policy, from Kosovo to Afghanistan, Syria, and Ukraine, along with her views on Barack ...
JUN 12, 2014 • Journal
Why Human Rights Are Called Human Rights
No one can engage in commerce when deprived of liberty or autonomy. No one can create or imagine or love when consumed by fear. We ...
JUN 12, 2014 • Journal
Drones and the Question of "The Human"
In our headlong embrace of drone technology, we are forgetting to ask two basic questions: What is a drone? And what does it mean that ...
JUN 12, 2014 • Journal
The Future of the Human Rights Movement
More than twenty years have passed since the end of the cold war, and the time when people spoke in triumphal terms of the global ...