Ethics & International Affairs articles from April 2005

Ethics & International Affairs archives from April 2005

World poverty and human rights.(SYMPOSIUM)
April 1, 2005... Despite a high and growing global average income, billions of human beings are still condemned to life-long severe poverty, with all its attendant evils of low life expectancy, social exclusion, ill health, illiteracy, dependency, and effective...

Do we owe the global poor assistance or rectification? Response to world poverty and human rights.
April 1, 2005... A central theme throughout Thomas Pogge s pathbreaking World Poverty and Human Rights is that the global political and economic order harms people in developing countries, and that our duty toward the global poor is therefore not to assist them...

Should we stop thinking about poverty in terms of helping the poor? Response to world poverty and human rights.
April 1, 2005... It would be rather unusual for someone to argue publicly that the world s rich have no obligations at all with respect to t the global poor. Many, however, claim that the obligations of the affluent countries are both fairly weak and minimal....

Human rights and positive duties: Response to world poverty and human rights.
April 1, 2005... In World Poverty and Human Rights, Thomas Pogge presents a range of attractive policy proposals--limiting the international resource and borrowing privileges, decentralizing sovereignty, and introducing a "global resources dividend"--aimed at...

Contributing and benefiting: two grounds for duties to the victims of injustice: response to world poverty and human rights.
April 1, 2005... Contrasting his own position with that of those who conceive the moral challenge of global poverty in terms of a positive duty to help, Thomas Pogge suggests that "we may be failing to fulfill our more stringent negative duty not to uphold...

What do we owe the global poor? Response to world poverty and human rights.
April 1, 2005... In his provocative book World Poverty and Human Rights, Thomas Pogge employs two distinct argumentative strategies. (1) The first is ecumenical: Pogge makes powerful arguments for redressing world poverty that aim to appeal to persons with...

Severe poverty as a violation of negative duties: reply to the critics.
April 1, 2005... BASELINES FOR DETERMINING HARM Mathias Risse discusses whether the global system of territorial sovereignty that emerged in the fifteenth century can be said to harm the poorer societies. This question is distinct from the question I raise...

On the alleged conflict between democracy and international law.
April 1, 2005... It is December 12, 1960. Israeli secret agents have captured Adolf Eichmann, and the Israeli government has declared its intention to put Eichmann on trial. Karl Jaspers writes to Hannah Arendt: "The Eichmann trial is unsettling... because I...

The democratic minimum: is democracy a means to global justice?
April 1, 2005... Democracy can be justified for any number of reasons. Many such justifications are intrinsic, related to realizing various moral ends and political ideals. Other justifications are instrumental. Chief among them is the claim that over the long...

Torture: A Collection.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Torture: A Collection, Sanford Levinson, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 319 pp., $29.95 cloth. Sanford Levinson has done us all a tremendous service in compiling this rich set of essays on a highly compelling and timely...

Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Religious and Secular Perspectives.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Religious and Secular Perspectives, Sohail H. Hashmi and Steven P. Lee, eds. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 534 pp., $85 cloth, $37.99 paper. Chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons...

Green Giants?: Environmental Policies of the United States and the European Union.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Green Giants? Environmental Policies of the United States and the European Union, Norman J. Vig and Michael G. Faure, eds. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004), 398 pp., $67 cloth, $27 paper. Two of the major players in current international...

The Dubious Link: Civic Engagement and Democratization.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Dubious Link: Civic Engagement and Democratization, Ariel C. Armony (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004), 297 pp., $55 cloth. Throughout the 1990s, an influential group of academics and policy-makers known as the...

Ethnicity Without Groups.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Ethnicity Without Groups, Rogers Brubaker (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004), 283 pp., $45 cloth. Ethnicity Without Groups, a set of essays on various themes in the study of ethnicity and nationalism, contains all the virtues of...

The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West, Gilles Kepel, trans. Pascale Ghazaleh (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004), 327 pp., $23.95 cloth. Relations between Islam and the West have never been straightforward; just how...