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The Gadget, nuclear device to test the world's 1st atomic bomb, New Mexico, 1945. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Gadget.jpg">Public Domain</a>

FEB 4, 2016 Article

Deterrence or Disarmament?: The Ethics of Nuclear Warfare

Is using a nuclear weapon morally permissible under some circumstances? Is it ethical to implement nuclear deterrence (threatening to use atomic weapons) as a self-defense ...

FEB 2, 2016 Podcast

Interview with Thomas Weiss on Change and Continuity in Global Governance

The term global governance grew up to describe the fact that there is an increasing number of civil society actors. Nevertheless, these new actors are ...

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JAN 28, 2016 Article

Human Rights in Asia and the West

The geographical, national, or ethnic East-West division in human rights thinking is increasingly irrelevant. Instead, multiple layers of horizontal solidarity have been formed through global ...

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JAN 28, 2016 Article

Values and the Ethics of International Order

At a time when U.S. primacy is in doubt, when many are concerned that China might become a global political power, when the threat ...

Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, Singapore. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/31085717@N00/7983276207/" target="_blank">Khairul Nizam</a>

JAN 26, 2016 Article

The "Singapore School" of Asian Values: Down But Not Out?

When the Asian financial crisis of 1997 blunted the so-called "Asian Economic Miracle," critics--many Westerners, but also Asians tired of the tendentious claims of their cultural ...