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SEP 4, 2018 • Journal
Covert Positive Incentives as an Alternative to War
In this essay, James Pattison argues that covert positive incentives are preferable to both overt incentives and covert force.
SEP 4, 2018 • Journal
The Ethics of Countering Digital Propaganda
Corneliu Bjola argues in this essay that the concept of moral authority offers an original framework for responding to digital disinformation campaigns.
SEP 4, 2018 • Journal
Backfire: The Dark Side of Nonviolent Resistance
In this essay, Michael L. Gross examines the ethics of provoking backfire in the context of nonviolent resistance.
SEP 4, 2018 • Journal
Ending Atrocity Crimes: The False Promise of Fatalism
Some commentators suggest that the best way to minimize harm in atrocity situations is to let the state win as quickly as possible. Could this ...
SEP 4, 2018 • Journal
The Moral Limits of Territorial Claims in Antarctica
This article evaluates the moral weight of the initial territorial claims to Antarctica, which stand as a cornerstone of the Antarctic Treaty.
SEP 4, 2018 • Journal
Reconstructing Globalization in an Illiberal Era
George F. DeMartino examines recent books from Dani Rodrick and Joseph Stiglitz, both of whom press the case for a reconstructed globalization that generates benefits ...
SEP 4, 2018 • Journal
Conflict-Related Violence Against Women: Transforming Transition, by Aisling Swaine
The overarching aim of Aisling Swaine’s recent book is to empirically and theoretically expand our understanding of conflict-related violence against women. The breadth and ...
SEP 4, 2018 • Journal
Toward a Cosmopolitan Ethics of Mobility: The Migrant’s-Eye View of the World, by Alex Sager
In this book, Alex Sager challenges the “methodological nationalism” that dominates debates in migration ethics and offers a new way to think normatively about mobility ...
SEP 4, 2018 • Journal
Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century, by Kathryn Sikkink
Kathryn Sikkink’s recent book introduces a set of new ideas and approaches for assessing human rights’ effectiveness that, like her past groundbreaking work, will ...
SEP 4, 2018 • Journal
Refuge: Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World, by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier
This book helps us to adopt a much broader perspective on the current refugee crisis and what it might take to adequately address it. It ...