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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 ...

Rosa Brooks

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 ...

JUN 12, 2014 Journal

Against a World Court for Human Rights

A World Court is not just an idea whose time has not yet come. The very idea fundamentally misconceives the nature of the challenges confronting ...

JUN 12, 2014 Journal

What Future for Human Rights?

The field of human rights covers many different beliefs, norms, institutions, and activities, and these may well have different futures. Some may flourish while others ...