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JAN 14, 2013 • Podcast
Global Ethics Corner: Sexual Violence in India: From Punishment to Deterrence
A brutal gang rape on a New Delhi bus has sparked global outrage and national soul-searching in India. Many are calling for the death penalty ...
JAN 7, 2013 • Journal
The Right to Justification: Elements of a Constructivist Theory of Justice by Rainer Forst
In this book--a tour de force that exhibits both a compelling, unified vision and a wide range of concrete insights--Forst explains how his unified theory ...
JAN 7, 2013 • Journal
Dignity in Adversity: Human Rights in Troubled Times by Seyla Benhabib
In this book, Benhabib makes a compelling case for a “cosmopolitanism without illusions” that may help show the way through an uncertain world transformed and ...
JAN 7, 2013 • Journal
Global Civics: Responsibilities and Rights in an Interdependent World Edited by Hakan Altinay
"Global Civics" is an attempt to ignite a dialogue about responsibilities and rights in an increasingly interdependent world, and should be of interest to anyone ...
JAN 7, 2013 • Journal
Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience Edited by Claire Magone, Michaël Neuman, and Fabrice Weissman; and Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present by Didier Fassin
These two recent works make a complementary and refreshing contribution to the burgeoning field of humanitarian studies. Both books shed new light on the authority ...
JAN 7, 2013 • Journal
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
JAN 7, 2013 • Journal
Introductory Note
Recent developments in climate policy have done little to suggest that the world is acting quickly enough to avoid a dangerous rise in global temperatures. ...
JAN 7, 2013 • Journal
Arctic Stewardship: Maintaining Regional Resilience in an Era of Global Change [Full Text]
What sorts of harms arising from changes in the Arctic are actionable, and who should take the actions required to respond to them?
JAN 7, 2013 • Journal
“If Equity’s In, We’re Out”: Scope for Fairness in the Next Global Climate Agreement
This article sets out a conceptual framework for normative theorizing about fairness in international negotiations, with a particular emphasis on the role of feasibility considerations. ...
JAN 7, 2013 • Journal
Climate Justice and Capabilities: A Framework for Adaptation Policy
This article argues that most well-known approaches to climate justice have two important weaknesses, in that they fail to take advantage of two crucial developments: ...