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MAR 11, 2010 Journal

The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days by Karen Greenberg

The lesson of the first 100 days of Guantanamo is not one of how truth and justice triumphed, but of how efficiently a bureaucratic machine on ...

MAR 11, 2010 Journal

The Global Commonwealth of Citizens: Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy by Daniele Archibugi

This book provides not only an exhaustive treatment of the benefits and drawbacks of cosmopolitan democracy, but also the most detailed statement to date of ...

MAR 11, 2010 Journal

Terrorism, Resistance, and the Idea of "Unlawful Combatancy"

When faced with security threats from terrorism and other forms of nonstate political violence, how should liberal-democratic states respond? Finlay discusses books by Tamar Meisels, ...

MAR 11, 2010 Journal

Deliberation and Global Criminal Justice: Juries in the International Criminal Court

Juries could bolster the ICC's legitimacy by promoting public trust, increasing procedural fairness, foregrounding deliberative reasoning, and embodying democratic values. ICC juries would present novel ...

MAR 11, 2010 Journal

Public Accountability and the Public Sphere of International Governance

Steffek advocates a return to a conception of public accountability as accountability to the wider public. He investigates the prospects for this beyond the state, ...

MAR 11, 2010 Journal

Democracy in a Pluralist Global Order: Corporate Power and Stakeholder Representation

Global democratization cannot be achieved by simply replicating familiar democratic institutions on a global scale. We must explore alternative institutional means for establishing democratic institutions ...

MAR 11, 2010 Journal

Introduction [Full Text]

If global democratization is to advance beyond the current point, it is necessary to confront the practical challenge of institutional design: How might ideals of ...

MAR 11, 2010 Journal

The Politics of Punishing Terrorists [Full Text]

Debates about trying and punishing terrorists reveal how the failure to construct a shared normative consensus in international criminal justice continues to bedevil the international ...

Book cover image of Superpower Illusions: How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray--and How to Return to Reality

MAR 11, 2010 Podcast

Superpower Illusions: How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray--and How to Return to Reality

Jack Matlock, American ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991, corrects a number of pervasive myths about the Cold War, including the belief that it ...

MAR 10, 2010 Podcast

Michael Doyle on Nonintervention and the Responsibility to Protect

What circumstances justify overriding sovereignty? Michael Doyle discusses the difficult questions surrounding nonintervention and the "unanimous revolution" of 2005, which led to the new norm known ...