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MAR 19, 2014 Journal Online Exclusive

The Lost Promise of Patriotism and World War I (Part II)

JONATHAN HANSEN AND ZACH DORFMAN "The entry of the United States into World War I in April 1917 swamped cosmopolitan patriotism in a wave of jingoism," ...

Sebastian Junger

MAR 18, 2014 Podcast

Ethics Matter: A Conversation with Sebastian Junger

Journalist Sebastian Junger knows about war from the inside: the horror and pain, the excitement and heightened awareness, and the fierce brotherhood between soldiers. In ...

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MAR 17, 2014 Podcast

Blowing the Whistle

Has the perception of whistleblowers changed? With high-profile cases like Edward Snowden and increased protections for those who accuse their employers of misconduct, have we ...

MAR 17, 2014 Journal

The Politics and Ethics of Identity: In Search of Ourselves by Richard Ned Lebow

Lebow argues that nearly all the claims made by social theorists emphasizing the importance of identity are wrong.

MAR 16, 2014 Journal Online Exclusive

Assessing the Ethics of Secession: Crimea

The vote in Crimea draws attention to the clash between adherence to proper, constitutional procedure and the right to self-determination.

MAR 16, 2014 Journal Online Exclusive

The Ethics of Avoiding Conflict with China

Is there a policy prescription that can avoid turning predictions of a Sino-American clash into a self-fulfilling prophecy?

The Leading Indicators: A Short History of the Numbers That Rule Our World

MAR 16, 2014 Podcast

The Leading Indicators: A Short History of the Numbers That Rule Our World

"By relying so heavily on things like GDP, unemployment, and the suite of statistics that grew up in their wake, we are using a really ...

MAR 15, 2014 Journal

Political Self-Sacrifice: Agency, Body and Emotion in International Relations by K. M. Fierke

This book brings what seem like senseless acts of desperation into focus as strategically intelligible and culturally meaningful techniques of resistance.

MAR 14, 2014 Journal

The International Rule of Law: Law and the Limit of Politics

The international rule of law provides political resources with which states and other actors legitimize and delegitimize contending policies. The atomistic nature of the interstate ...

MAR 14, 2014 Journal

Hobbes on the International Rule of Law

The practice of state compliance with international law is not that easily demonstrated to be the product of legal constraint. Indeed, the problem goes beyond ...