Ethics & International Affairs articles from April 2001

Ethics & International Affairs archives from April 2001

Editor's note.
April 1, 2001... This diverse collection of essays is unified by two enterprises: evaluating the institutional arrangements that govern our interactions with one another and assessing the choices we make as individual citizens, consumers, employees,...

Achieving democracy.
April 1, 2001... Democracy means that political power is authorized and controlled by the people over whom it is exercised, and this in such a way as to give these persons roughly equal political influence. Democracy involves voting--on political issues or on...

National Reconciliation, Transnational Justice, and the International Criminal Court.
April 1, 2001... The creation of international tribunals to try perpetrators of heinous crimes and the drive to establish a permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) represent a turn from blanket amnesties and de facto impunity toward policies of holding...

Peaceful transition and retrospective justice: some reservations: a response to Juan E. Mendez.
April 1, 2001... In his thoughtful essay on the relationship between national reconciliation and retributive justice, Juan E. Mendez seeks to balance the complex imperatives facing societies that are emerging from dictatorship and civil conflict. Steering clear...

U.S. arms control policy in a time warp.
April 1, 2001... There is much hand-wringing in the arms control trenches these days over the role and future of arms control in U.S. policy. Liberal supporters of arms control lament what they see as a decade of missed opportunities to pursue deep cuts in the...

Alive and kicking: the greatly exaggerated death of nuclear deterrence: a response to Nina Tannenwald.
April 1, 2001... Despite the radical changes in the global political and military situation in the past ten years, U.S. nuclear forces retain the same mission and the same basic structure they had when Moscow was the seat of the "Evil Empire." As it has for...

The new business of war: small arms and the proliferation of conflict.
April 1, 2001... In his "We the Peoples" report issued in conjunction with the September 2000 United Nations Millennium Summit, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan advocated a re-energized worldwide effort to prevent war by promoting democracy, human rights, and...

The moral rationale for international fiscal law.
April 1, 2001... A country's right to levy taxes is a fundamental aspect of its sovereignty. Without the power to tax, a government would be unable to redistribute resources among its citizens and provide public goods. The question of how tax rights should be...

Measuring human rights.
April 1, 2001... Claims of unjust treatment and demands for policy reform are increasingly being couched in the language of human rights. In order to define human rights more precisely, various efforts are under way to create measurements, or human rights...

Legitimizing the use of force in Kosovo.
April 1, 2001... A New Generation Draws the Line: Kosovo, East Timor and the Standards of the West, Noam Chomsky (New York: Verso, 2001), 160 pp., $23 cloth. Civil Resistance in Kosovo, Howard Clark (Sterling, Va.: Pluto Press, 2000), 286 pp., $59.95...

Deliver Us From Evil: Peaceheepers, Warlords, and a World of Endless Conflict, William Shawcross (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 416 pp., $27.50 cloth.
April 1, 2001... Deliver Us From Evil: Peaceheepers, Warlords, and a World of Endless Conflict, William Shawcross (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 416 pp., $27.50 cloth. William Shawcross's wide-ranging, often insightful, but ultimately frustrating book...

Runaway World. How Globalization Is Reshaping Our Lives. (The Dilemmas of Globalization).
April 1, 2001... Runaway World. How Globalization Is Reshaping Our Lives, Anthony Giddens (New York: Routledge, 2000), 124 pp., $17.95 cloth. The fin-de-millenaire has brought forth a wave of books on globalization, as a larger public seeks to come to terms...

The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The World Economy in the Twenty-First Century. (The Dilemmas of Globalization.
April 1, 2001... The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The World Economy in the Twenty-First Century, Robert Gilpin (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), 373 pp., $29.95 cloth. The fin-de-millenaire has brought forth a wave of books on...

False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism. (The Dilemmas of Globalization.
April 1, 2001... False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, John Gray (New York: The New Press, 1999), 262 pp., $25 cloth, $13.95 paper. The fin-de-millenaire has brought forth a wave of books on globalization, as a larger public seeks to come to terms...

Two Faces of Liberalism. (The Dilemmas of Globalization.
April 1, 2001... Two Faces of Liberalism, John Gray (New York: The New Press, 2000), 161 pp., $25 cloth. The fin-de-millenaire has brought forth a wave of books on globalization, as a larger public seeks to come to terms with a set of circumstances that is...

Empire. (The Dilemmas of Globalization.
April 1, 2001... Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000), 478 pp., $35 cloth. The fin-de-millenaire has brought forth a wave of books on globalization, as a larger public seeks to come to terms with a set of...

Die postnationale Konstellation. (Law and Legitimacy in the Work of Jurgen Habermas and Carl Schmitt).
April 1, 2001... Die postnationale Konstellation, Jurgen Habermas (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1998); forthcoming as The Postnational Constellation: Political Essays, Jurgen Habermas, ed. Max Pensky (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001), 216 pp., $55 cloth. Over...

The Inclusion of the Other: Studies in Political Theory. (Law and Legitimacy in the Work of Jurgen Habermas and Carl Schmitt.
April 1, 2001... The Inclusion of the Other: Studies in Political Theory, Jurgen Habermas, ed. Ciaran Cronin and Pablo De Greiff (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998), 334 pp., $45 cloth, $17.95 paper. Over 200 years ago, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant...

The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt. (Law and Legitimacy in the Work of Jurgen Habermas and Carl Schmitt.
April 1, 2001... The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt, Gopal Balakrishnan (New York: Verso, 2000), 320 pp., $40 cloth. Over 200 years ago, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant reported that the peoples of the earth were on a determined march...

The Jewish Political Tradition, vol. 1, Authority.
April 1, 2001... The Jewish Political Tradition, vol. 1, Authority, Michael Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, Noam J. Zohar, and Yair Lorberbaum, eds. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 641 pp., $35 cloth. Unlike some of the other authorities in "the...

The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices.
April 1, 2001... The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices, Elazar Barkan (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000), 464 pp., $29.95 cloth. Can "victims and perpetrators collaborate in searching for an exit from the bonds of history"?...

The Bounds of Justice.
April 1, 2001... The Bounds of Justice, Onora O'Neill (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 226 pp., $54.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. In the third chapter of Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant argues that in conceiving of the world human...

Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach.
April 1, 2001... Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach, Martha C. Nussbaum (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 334 pp., $24.95 cloth. Described by the New York Times as "America's most prominent woman philosopher," Martha...

Health and Human Rights: A Reader.
April 1, 2001... Health and Human Rights: A Reader, George J. Annas, Michael A. Grodin, Sofia Gruskin, and Jonathan M. Mann, eds. (New York: Routledge, 1999), 505 pp., $85 cloth, $28.95 paper. This collection of essays addresses the human rights...

Economic Imperatives and Ethical Values in Global Business: The South African Experience and International Codes Today.
April 1, 2001... Economic Imperatives and Ethical Values in Global Business: The South African Experience and International Codes Today, S. Prakash Sethi and Oliver F. Williams (Boston/Dordrecht/London: Kluwer, 2000), 448 pp., $159 cloth. These two books...

Global Codes of Conduct: An Idea Whose Time Has Come.
April 1, 2001... Global Codes of Conduct: An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Oliver F. Williams, ed. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000), 432 pp., $25 paper. These two books present the best current thinking about efforts to appraise and influence...

Do No Harm: How Aid Can Support Peace--or War.
April 1, 2001... Do No Harm: How Aid Can Support Peace--or War, Mary B. Anderson (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999), 171 pp., $16.95 paper. Traditionally, the development community has tried to steer clear of conflict situations. Focusing...

For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator.
April 1, 2001... For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator, Richard J. Goldstone (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 152 pp., $18.50 cloth. This small book contains the reflections of a man who, for more than ten years, has been in the...

Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe.
April 1, 2001... Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe, Norman M. Naimark (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001), 254 pp., $24.95 cloth. Civilization versus barbarism is one of the most enduring themes handed down from the...

Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century.
April 1, 2001... Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century, Jonathan Glover (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 478 pp., $27.95 cloth. Civilization versus barbarism is one of the most enduring themes handed down from the Enlightenment. In the...

Nature and Nationalism: Right-Wing Ecology and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Germany.
April 1, 2001... Nature and Nationalism: Right-Wing Ecology and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Germany, Jonathan Olsen (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999), 208 pp., $45 cloth. In his classic 1949 essay, "The Land Ethic," Aldo Leopold argues for...

Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping: The United Nations and the Mobilization of Ideology.
April 1, 2001... Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping: The United Nations and the Mobilization of Ideology, Francois Debrix (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), 296 pp., $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. In 1990 and 1991 American politicians and journalists...

Governmental Illegitimacy in International Law.
April 1, 2001... Governmental Illegitimacy in International Law, Brad Roth (Oxford: Clarendon, 1999), 430 pp., $115 cloth. This book takes a big bite out of a vital and relevant issue: When does a government lose its legitimacy in the eyes of international...

Making Majorities: Constituting the Nation in Japan, Korea, China, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the United States.
April 1, 2001... Making Majorities: Constituting the Nation in Japan, Korea, China, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the United States, Dru C. Gladney, ed. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998), 376 pp., $55 cloth, $19.95 paper. This collection of essays,...

A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950.
April 1, 2001... A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000), 684 pp., $28.95 cloth. First, the bad news. Autobiography is a craft fraught with hazards--the traps that await...

In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist.
April 1, 2001... In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist, S. S. Schweber (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), 260 pp., $24.95 cloth. The success of the play Copenhagen in London and New York is...

Thucydides' Theory of International Relations: A Lasting Possession.
April 1, 2001... Thucydides' Theory of International Relations: A Lasting Possession, Lowell S. Gustafson, ed. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000), 208 pp., $55 cloth, $24.95 paper. The greatest achievement of this outstanding collection...

Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War.
April 1, 2001... Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War, Frances FitzGerald (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000), 592 pp., $30 cloth. In 1835 Tocqueville wrote that Americans "care but little for what has been, but they...