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JUN 12, 2014 Journal

State Sovereignty and International Human Rights

An increasingly robust international politics of human rights will provide valuable support to domestic advocates, help to impede backsliding, and in at least a few ...

JUN 12, 2014 Journal

The Future of Human Rights: A View from the United Nations

It is with respect to human rights that the UN has experienced some of its greatest shortcomings. The new "Rights up Front" plan may help ...

JUN 12, 2014 Journal

From Empire to Sovereignty—and Back?

JENS BARTLESON How do empires and sovereign states relate, conceptually as well as historically? It is no coincidence that many historians of political thought are ...

JUN 12, 2014 Journal

Briefly Noted

JUN 12, 2014 Journal

Fairness in Practice: A Social Contract for a Global Economy by Aaron James

This book brings political economy, international relations, and development economics into conversation with moral philosophy, making a critical contribution to the ethics of globalization.

JUN 12, 2014 Journal

Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency by Lea Ypi

In this book, Ypi proposes that theory begin with a specific political conflict, diagnose the failure of existing practices and norms to resolve it, and, ...

JUN 12, 2014 Journal

Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World by John Broome

DALE JAMIESON This book greatly contributes to our attempts to meet the challenge of climate change and to answer the difficult questions that it raises.

JUN 11, 2014 Podcast

Womenomics and Culture Change in Japan

In Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a new generation of business leaders have launched a cultural shift, with many trying to increase female corporate ...

The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move?

JUN 9, 2014 Podcast

The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move?

Today we create information in everything that we do, and there is no going back. But instead of seeing this as as a threat, we ...

The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union

JUN 6, 2014 Podcast

The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union

Serhii Plokhy presents a bold new interpretation of the Soviet Union's final months, which places Ukraine at the center of the drama. And by providing ...