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DEC 7, 2018 • Journal
Toward a Human-Centric Approach to Cybersecurity
This essay presents an approach to cybersecurity that is derived from the tradition of “human security.” This approach prioritizes the individual and views the Internet ...
DEC 7, 2018 • Journal
Promoting Economic Prosperity in Cyberspace
This essay argues that the original policy foundations on which the Internet was built—including strong free speech protections, open technical standards, and privacy protection—...
DEC 7, 2018 • Journal
What if Cyberspace Were for Fighting?
This essay explores the ethical and legal implications of prioritizing cyberspace as a warfighting domain. The authors envision a world where states take on a ...
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.