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SEP 28, 2010 Journal

United Nations Justice: Legal and Judicial Reform in Governance Operations by Calin Trenkov-Wermuth

Calin Trenkov-Wermuth's "United Nations Justice" provides a thoughtful and useful contribution to the understanding of how UN governance operations have evolved.

SEP 28, 2010 Journal

The Commitments of Cosmopolitanism

Gillian Brock's "Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account" and Darrel Moellendorf's "Global Inequality Matters" present carefully crafted accounts of the obligations we have to non-compatriots and ...

SEP 28, 2010 Journal Online Exclusive

How to Punish Collective Agents: Non-Compliance with Moral Duties by States (Response to Toni Erskine)

If individual moral agents do wrong they usually deserve and are liable to some kind of punishment. But how can states be punished for failing ...

SEP 28, 2010 Journal

Reviving Nuclear Ethics: A Renewed Research Agenda for the Twenty-First Century

Since the end of the Cold War, international ethicists have focused largely on issues outside the traditional scope of security studies. The nuclear ethics literature ...

SEP 28, 2010 Journal

Kicking Bodies and Damning Souls: The Danger of Harming "Innocent" Individuals While Punishing "Delinquent" States

Institutions can be assigned duties, and thus can also be blamed for failing to discharge them. But how can we respond to this type of ...

SEP 28, 2010 Journal

The Ethical Implications of Sea-Level Rise Due to Climate Change

Does humanity have a moral obligation toward the estimated millions of individuals who will be displaced from their homes over the course of this century ...

SEP 28, 2010 Journal

Just War, Jihad, and the Study of Comparative Ethics

What can the study of the comparative ethics tell us about the similarities and divergences between the just war and jihad traditions? How can the ...

The Tenth Parallel:  Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam

SEP 27, 2010 Podcast

The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam

More than half of the world's Muslims and Christians live along the tenth parallel in Africa or in Asia. How do these two great intersecting ...

SEP 24, 2010 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: Deepwater Drilling and Fossil Fuels

Offshore oil spills have devastating consequences, yet storm-drain runoff from leaky cars and gas stations can be just as bad. Do the risks of deepwater ...

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SEP 22, 2010 Podcast

Eco Innovations: Small Spark, Big Impact

How do sustainable innovations make it to market? Three very different inventors talk about their creative process, how their inventions have had a social impact, ...