Ethics & International Affairs articles from December 2007

Ethics & International Affairs archives from December 2007

Reading Tariq Ramadan: political liberalism, Islam, and "overlapping consensus".(Essay)
December 22, 2007... The interest of Western intellectuals in Islamic political and ethical traditions (predominantly its traditions of warfare, but also of governance, social order, and gender relations) is now almost matched by our fascination with "Islam in the...

Expanding Europe: the ethics of EU-Turkey relations.(European Union)(Essay)
December 22, 2007... The possible future European Union (EU) membership of Turkey has be come one of the most hotly debated topics both in the EU and within Turkey itself. It is true that previous EU enlargements have also attracted the attention of the wider...

American religious NGOs in North Korea: a paradoxical relationship.(non-governmental organization)
December 22, 2007... The North Korean famine of the mid-1990s posed challenging ethical and humanitarian dilemmas for foreign aid workers who responded to the crisis. It also yielded a paradox: Despite the antipathy of the North Korean system to outside religious...

Human rights versus emissions rights: climate justice and the equitable distribution of ecological space.
December 22, 2007... It is no longer seriously disputed that, in the face of climate change, carbon emissions must be reduced. There is agreement internationally that responsibility for making these reductions should be shared with equitable differentiation. In...

States of risk: should cosmopolitans favor their compatriots?(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... If cosmopolitans were like Diogenes the Cynic, who expressed scatological contempt for organized society, or like Charles Dickens's comic creation Mrs. Jellyby in Bleak House, who advocates for good works in "Africa" while her own children...

The rules of war.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... War Crimes and Just War, Larry May (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 357 pp., $80 cloth, $29.99 paper. The Price of Peace: Just War in the Twenty-First Century, Charles Reed and David Ryall, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge...

Does Foreign Aid Really Work?(Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development, Domestic Politics)(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Does Foreign Aid Really Work?, Roger C. Riddell (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 536 pp., $35 cloth. Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development, Domestic Politics, Carol Lancaster (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2007), 288 pp., $50...

Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad: In Search of Knowledge.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad: In Search of Knowledge, Thomas Carothers, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2006), 363 pp., $50 cloth, $19.95 paper. Rule-of-law (ROL) reform is a relative newcomer to the...

All Politics Is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... All Politics Is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes, Daniel W. Drezner (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007), 254 pp., $29.95 cloth. At a time when many international relations scholars are qualifying their...

The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers, Ngaire Woods (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006), 264 pp., $29.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. The disputes over Paul Wolfowitz's tenure as head of the World Bank and the...