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DEC 7, 2018 Journal

Ethical Dilemmas in Cyberspace

This final roundtable essay steps back to highlight three broad issues that cut across the other contributions and raise ethical concerns about our activity online. ...

DEC 7, 2018 Journal

Reforming the Security Council through a Code of Conduct: A Sisyphean Task?

In this feature, Bolarinwa Adediran disputes the utility of a code of conduct to regulate the exercise of the veto at the UN Security Council ...

DEC 7, 2018 Journal

How Not to Do Things with International Law

In this review essay, Anne Peters considers Ian Hurd’s recent book How to Do Things with International Law. Peters argues that, although the book ...

DEC 7, 2018 Journal

Human Rights Under Attack: What Comes Next?

Micheline Ishay laments the recent onslaught against the human rights movement even from professed supporters, taking Samuel Moyn’s recent book Not Enough as indicative ...

DEC 7, 2018 Journal

Just Responsibility: A Human Rights Theory of Global Justice, by Brooke A. Ackerly

This book offers a clear argument for assuming political responsibility toward basic structures of injustice in the developing world.

DEC 7, 2018 Journal

Return of the Barbarians: Confronting Non-State Actors from Ancient Rome to the Present, by Jakub J. Grygiel

In this book, Jakub J. Grygiel provocatively shows how strategic actors beyond nation-states are making resurgence.

DEC 7, 2018 Journal

A Foreign Policy for the Left, by Michael Walzer

Michael Walzer’s new book brings together essays from the past sixteen years to offer pragmatic ethical guidance on matters of foreign policy.

DEC 7, 2018 Journal

Justice and Natural Resources: An Egalitarian Theory, by Chris Armstrong

Chris Armstrong defends a straightforward and highly plausible thesis: that the benefits and burdens associated with natural resources should be distributed so as to reduce ...

DEC 7, 2018 Journal

Principled Spying: The Ethics of Secret Intelligence, by David Omand and Mark Phythian

Principled Spying offers an interesting, thorough, and accessible engagement of the ethical issues associated with intelligence gathering and covert operations.

DEC 7, 2018 Journal

Briefly Noted: Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History, by Stephen D. King

A brief book review of Stephen D. King's Grave New World.