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JUN 8, 2018 • Journal
The Social Cost of International Investment Agreements: The Case of Cigarette Packaging
In this essay, Jennifer L. Tobin argues that international investment agreements impinge on states’ domestic regulatory sovereignty in unforeseen ways, and that these hidden social ...
JUN 8, 2018 • Journal
Extractivism, Gender, and Disease: An Intersectional Approach to Inequalities
In this essay, Cristina Cielo and Lisset Coba use the case of the refinery city of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, to show that the negative impacts of ...
JUN 8, 2018 • Journal
Threats and Coercive Diplomacy: An Ethical Analysis
Threats of armed force are frequently employed in international affairs, yet they have received little ethical scrutiny in their own right. This article addresses that ...
JUN 8, 2018 • Journal
Temporary Labor Migration within the EU as Structural Injustice
Temporary labor migration (TLM) constitutes a significant trend of migration movements within the European Union, yet it has received scant attention in normative migration debates. ...
JUN 8, 2018 • Journal
The Irony of Just War
This review essay examines a series of benchmark books on the ethics of war published over the past year. All three grapple with the hard ...
JUN 8, 2018 • Journal
Toward a Global Water Ethic: Learning from Indigenous Communities
This review essay draws on three important new contributions to the water governance literature to suggest that insights from indigenous communities’ more holistic and long-term ...
JUN 8, 2018 • Journal
International Criminal Tribunals: A Normative Defense, by Larry May and Shannon Fyfe
Larry May and Shannon Fyfe take up a wide range of critiques that scholars and others have leveled at international criminal tribunals and argue that ...
JUN 8, 2018 • Journal
Gender, UN Peacebuilding, and the Politics of Space: Locating Legitimacy, by Laura J. Shepherd
Through rigorous and rich discourse analysis, Laura J. Shepherd interrogates not only how the UN understands peacebuilding itself but also how it understands gender, women, ...
JUN 8, 2018 • Journal
Just War Thinkers: From Cicero to the 21st Century, edited by Daniel R. Brunstetter and Cian O’Driscoll
This volume provides an overview of the development of just war thinking over the centuries through a series of contextualized snapshots of individuals whose work ...
JUN 8, 2018 • Journal
The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World, by Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro
In this book, Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro investigate the history, nature, and impact of the international legal prohibition on the use of ...