Ethics & International Affairs articles from June 2008

Ethics & International Affairs archives from June 2008

The resurgent idea of world government.(Essay)
June 22, 2008... The idea of world government is returning to the mainstream of scholarly thinking about international relations. Universities in North America and Europe now routinely advertise for positions in "global governance," a term that few would have...

Just war theory and the privatization of military force.
June 22, 2008... Since the 1990s there has been a marked growth in the private military industry. Private military companies (PMCs) have been taking on an ever-increasing number of roles traditionally performed by the regular military. These range from...

The rights of irregular migrants.(Essay)
June 22, 2008... In the contemporary politics of immigration, few issues are more contentious than the question of how democratic states should respond to the presence of people who have settled without official authorization. Too often discussions of this...

The elusive rights of an invisible population.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... This is a rich and stimulating piece, which--characteristically of Joseph Carens's work--challenges us to rethink certain suppositions about appropriate responses to migration. Of particular interest is Carens's suggestion for a so-called...

Irregular migrants: an alternative perspective.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... Professor Carens's paper displays all of the qualities that make him one of the most interesting applied political philosophers writing today. It is unfailingly lucid, engages with a significant issue in real-world politics, and does so from a...

Migrants and work-related rights.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... Professor Carens is concerned with finding a way to move beyond the in tensely politicized and apparently irreconcilable positions that characterize much of the discussion on the rights of "irregular migrants." These migrants tend to be cast...

Immigration policy and "immanent critique".(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... Professor Joseph Carens, in his thought-provoking and eloquently written essay "The Rights of Irregular Migrants," defends the view that irregular migrants have a moral claim to a broad range of rights in a liberal democratic state that goes...

Expanding the boundaries of transitional justice.('Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies' and 'What Happened to the Women? Gender and Reparations for Human Rights Violations')(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies, Alexander Mayer-Rieckh and Pablo de Greiff, eds. (New York: Social Science Research Council, 2007), 548 pp., $35 paper. What Happened to the Women? Gender and...

International Legitimacy and World Society.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... International Legitimacy and World Society, Ian Clark (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 248 pp., $65.00 cloth. Ian Clark's International Legitimacy and World Society is an ambitious companion to his Legitimacy in International...

Bioethics and Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of Medicine and War.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Bioethics and Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of Medicine and War, Michael L. Gross (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006), 400 pp., $65 cloth, $26 paper. Bioethics and Armed Conflict is a book that people interested in ethics and...

Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Who Owes What to the Very Poor?(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Who Owes What to the Very Poor?, Thomas Pogge, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 424 pp., $125 cloth, $35 paper. Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right is a very impressive volume. All the...

A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy, J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley C. Parks (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006), 384 pp., $65 cloth, $26 paper. When people learn that I am an academic...

The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin, George Crowder and Henry Hardy, eds. (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus, 2007), 335 PP., $28 cloth. The year 2007 marked the tenth anniversary of the death of Isaiah Berlin, the political philosopher and...

Identities, Affiliations, and Allegiances.(Briefly Noted)
June 22, 2008... Identities, Affiliations, and allegiances, Seyla Benhabib, Ian Shapiro, and Danilo Petranovich, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 424 pp., $85 cloth, $29.99 paper. The ambitious goal of this wide-ranging volume is to...

Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict.(Briefly Noted)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict, Michael W. Doyle; Stephen Macedo, ed. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008), 200 pp., $24.95 cloth. "Traditional preemption," writes Michael Doyle, "is too...

Mercenaries: The History of a Norm in International Relations.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Mercenaries: The History of a Norm in International Relations, Sarah Percy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 280 pp., $60 cloth. While this is but one in the recent surge of publications on the topic of mercenaries and private...