Ethics & International Affairs articles from June 2007

Ethics & International Affairs archives from June 2007

Editors' note.
June 22, 2007... Change can occur in different ways. Sometimes it is revolutionary, as in France in 1789 or the "British Invasion" in 1963. More often, however, change tends to be evolutionary--proceeding subtly, discreetly, even, at times, imperceptibly. That...

The human rights council: a new era in UN human rights work?(United Nations)
June 22, 2007... Kofi Annan did more than any UN Secretary-General before him to stress the close link between human rights and peace and security. In his inaugural address to the newly created Human Rights Council in Geneva on June 19, 2006, he said: "... lack...

Uganda's civil war and the politics of ICC intervention.
June 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION With its 2003 "Referral of the Situation Concerning the Lord's Resistance Army to the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Ugandan government launched a legal process that, it claimed, would bring peace and justice to...

Liability and just cause.
June 22, 2007... In "Just Cause for War," Jeff McMahan develops an account of the just cause condition in just war theory that is revisionist and even, as he says, "heretical." (1) Moreover, the general tendency of his revisions is to make the theory less...

The inconveniences of transnational democracy.
June 22, 2007... When then European Union Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy returned from the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial in Seattle, where gas-choked streets overflowing with tens of thousands of protesters had signaled the emergence of a...

Crime and punishment: holding states accountable.(Essay)
June 22, 2007... Can states be punished? Should states be punished? The Nuremberg International Military Tribunal answered this question with a resounding "no": Crimes against international law are committed by men, not by abstract entities, and...

Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny.(Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers)(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny, Amartya Sen (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006), 224 pp., $24.95 cloth, $15.95 paper. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, Kwame Anthony Appiah (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006), 256 pp.,...

Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues, Catharine A. MacKinnon (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 2006), 432 pp., $35.00 cloth. In April 2006, Catharine MacKinnon was interviewed about her new book, Are Women Human?, for BBC...

Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights, Carol C. Gould (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 288 pp., $70 cloth, $24.99 paper. Carol Gould's Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights is an impressive, sweeping analysis of some of the...

A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France, Jennifer Pitts (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005), 400 pp., $24.95 paper. A Turn to Empire contributes to a project among liberals in recent years to dust...

Law, Politics, and Morality in Judaism.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Law, Politics, and Morality in Judaism, Michael Walzer, ed. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), 224 pp., $55 cloth, $17.95 paper. This volume of collected essays, most of which have been published in earlier volumes in the...

The Good Fight: Why Liberal--and Only Liberals--Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Good Fight: Why Liberal--and Only Liberals--Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again, Peter Beinart (HarperCollins, 2006), 304 pp., $25.95 cloth. Peter Beinart's new book offers the Democratic Party a "new liberalism," a...