Ethics & International Affairs articles from March 2006

Ethics & International Affairs archives from March 2006

Accountability in international development aid.
March 1, 2006... Contemporary movements for the reform of global institutions advocate greater transparency, greater democracy, and greater accountability. Of these three, accountability is the master value. Transparency is valuable as means to accountability:...

Compromising justice: why the Bush administration and the NGOs are both wrong about the ICC.
March 1, 2006... The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first permanent international tribunal designed to hold individuals criminally accountable for genocide and other large-scale or officially planned atrocities. It entered into force on July 1, 2002,...

The ethics of secession and postinvasion Iraq.
March 1, 2006... Since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, one of the most important political debates in which Iraqis have engaged is whether or not one or more groups in Iraq may have cause--and the will--to secede. One of the aims of this essay is to...

Accountability and global governance: the case of Iraq.
March 1, 2006... In this essay, I explore issues concerning accountability and global governance by looking at the case of Iraq. The case of Iraq is worth considering with respect to accountability in global governance in part because the economic sanctions...

The ethics of lustration.(change and occupation in Iraq)
March 1, 2006... One of the most important challenges for ethics and international affairs is the problem of occupation. One of the most important challenges for the occupation of Iraq has been making decisions about the status of people who were either...

Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle, Cass Sunstein (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 234 pp., $23.99 cloth. For fifty years the industrial and medical communities have battled over pollution. Researchers from...

International Governance of War-Torn Territories: Rule and Reconstruction.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... International Governance of War-Torn Territories: Rule and Reconstruction, Richard Caplan (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 291 pp., $99 cloth. Our post-Cold War world has seen a remarkable renaissance of the idea of...

Worlds Apart: Measuring International and Global Inequality.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Worlds Apart: Measuring International and Global Inequality, Branko Milanovic (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005), 240 pp., $29.95 cloth. The extent and trend of world inequality are generally taken to be important for assessing...

Producing Security: Multinational Corporations, Globalization, and the Changing Calculus of Conflict.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Producing Security: Multinational Corporations, Globalization, and the Changing Calculus of Conflict, Stephen G. Brooks (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005), 316 pp., $35 cloth. Multinational corporations (MNCs) have always been...

Shaping Race Policies: The United States in Comparative Perspective.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Shaping Race Policies: The United States in Comparative Perspective, Robert Lieberman (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005), 334 pp., $35 cloth. Shaping Race Policies seeks to explain why racial incorporation is successful in some...

In the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943-1949.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... In the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943-1949, Jeffrey K. Olick (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), 392 pp., $29 cloth. Whenever a society needs to confront a difficult and violent past in the course of...