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NOV 7, 2019 Journal Online Exclusive

Ends and Means: A Response to Rights as Weapons

In Clifford Bob’s latest book, Rights as Weapons, he argues that rights are not political ends in themselves but are rather an effective means ...

NOV 7, 2019 Journal Online Exclusive

Sources of Firepower for Weaponized Rights

“Rights” are often portrayed as things that are universal, apolitical, inherent, or natural, and as ends in themselves. But what if “rights” are mere rhetoric, ...

NOV 7, 2019 Journal Online Exclusive

Ruling by Rights: Rule Making and Embedded Normativity

Clifford Bob’s Rights as Weapons offers a gripping description of the manifold ways people use rights-claims to attain strategic goals. In addition to using ...

NOV 7, 2019 Journal Online Exclusive

A Conversation about the Politics of Rights within Rights as Weapons

Clifford Bob’s book Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power builds a powerful argument that rights can be weapons of political conflict. ...

NOV 7, 2019 Journal Online Exclusive

What We've Been Reading

Welcome to our roundup of news and current events related to ethics and international affairs! Here’s what we’ve been reading this month.

Launch of Atlas V carrying the Fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite, Cape Canaveral, Florida, August 2019. <br>CREDIT: <a href="https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1932132/mobility-airmen-play-key-role-in-successful-satellite-launch/">U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Dalton Williams</a>

NOV 6, 2019 Podcast

Carnegie New Leaders Podcast: The Future of Space Acquisition & Threats, with Maj. Gen. Nina M. Armagno

In conversation with intelligence analyst Amelia M. Wolf, Major General Nina M. Armagno of the U.S. Air Force discusses her role as director of ...

NOV 4, 2019 Podcast

The Crack-Up: How General Motors Shaped America, with Anna Clark

From financing mechanisms to labor policy to the rise of the suburbs, General Motors had a huge effect on the development of the United States ...

OCT 30, 2019 Journal Online Exclusive

Crafting Narratives and the 2020 Elections

The Project on U.S. Global Engagement has released its report, The Search for a New Narrative: Recasting American Involvement in the International System. 

A Venezuelan family at the Colombia/Ecuador border, August 2018. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:This_Venezuelan_family_hopes_to_cross_the_border_between_Ecuador_and_Colombia_on_their_return_trip_to_Venezuela.jpg">Voice of America/Public Domain</a>

OCT 29, 2019 Podcast

Migration in the Americas, Empathy, & Politics, with Daniela Segovia

Political scientist Daniela Segovia, currently an Eisenhower Fellow, discusses the importance of empathy when working on and thinking about migration policy in Latin America. She ...

OCT 23, 2019 Podcast

The Crack-Up: The 1919 Elaine Massacre & the Struggle to Remember, with Nan Woodruff

The massacre in rural Elaine, Arkansas was one of the most violent episodes of 1919's Red Summer of racist confrontations, but it also remains one ...