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FEB 10, 2016 • Article
What Does Singapore Owe its Migrant Workers?
In Tuas View, an industrial neighborhood in Singapore, migrant workers have little reason to leave their buildings. They live in a 15,000 square foot dormitory, where ...
FEB 5, 2016 • Article
Can Wars Ever be Just or Are Wars Merely Justifiable?: The Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
From the standpoint of ethics of war, the conflict in the eastern region of the DRC would be deemed to be justifiable because it fills ...
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 ...
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 ...