Ethics & International Affairs articles from March 2008

Ethics & International Affairs archives from March 2008

Missile defense malfunction: why the proposed U.S. missile defenses in Europe will not work *.
March 22, 2008... The U.S. proposal to establish missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic has exacerbated relations with Russia to a degree not seen since the height of the Cold War, and has done so despite the fact that the system has no...

On the morality of immigration.(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2008... My goal here is twofold: First, I wish to make a plea for the relevance of moral considerations in debates about immigration. Too often, immigration debates are conducted solely from the standpoint of "what is good for us," without regard for...

Can there be a "kindered" peace?(Essay)
March 22, 2008... There are more resources now devoted to the pursuit of peace than at any time in the history of the international system. The participating cast of actors--international, regional, state, and nonstate--seek to create a peace that is essentially...

Justifications of the Iraq war examined (1).(Viewpoint essay)
March 22, 2008... Imagine three cases: Corporal Greene returns to the United States in a body bag having been killed by an elite armed guard in a war that had been officially authorized as a defense of her country against foes who have the capability and...

Deliberation and global governance: liberal, cosmopolitan, and critical perspectives.(Report)
March 22, 2008... Recent decades have seen a proliferation of proposals within political theory and international relations to reform global governance institutions along democratic lines. (1) It is, though, increasingly possible to discern another related but...

Torture and the "distributive justice" theory of self-defense: an assessment.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... On August 1, 2002, Assistant Attorney General lay Bybee presented to White House Counsel Alberto Gonzalez a memorandum addressing the question of what interrogation methods were prohibited by the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel,...

The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future, Martha C. Nussbaum (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007), 432 pp., $29.95 cloth. The Clash Within is a lengthy account of the rise of the Hindu right and of...

Inventing Human Rights: A History.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Inventing Human Rights: A History, Lynn Hunt (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2007), 272 pp., $25.95 cloth, $14.95 paper. In the second half of the eighteenth century, epistolary novels became popular in France and England, people began...

Planet of Slums.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Planet of Slums, Mike Davis (London: Verso, 2006), 256 pp., $24 cloth, $16.95 paper. Planet of Slums is relentless. Mike Davis, the prolific author and social critic, piles on evidence in the service of a passionate, despairing, and at...

Development as a Human Right: Legal, Political, and Economic Dimensions.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Development as a Human Right: Legal, Political, and Economic Dimensions, Bard A. Andreassen and Stephen P. Marks, eds. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard School of Public Health, 2007), 350 pp., $24.95 paper. In the foreword to this volume, a Nobel...

National Insecurity and Human Rights: Democracies Debate Counterterrorism.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... National Insecurity and Human Rights: Democracies Debate Counterterrorism, Alison Brysk and Gershon Shafir, eds. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2007), 245 pp., $29.95 paper. Mison Brysk and Gershon Shafir repeat the...

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, Paul Collier (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 224 pp., $28 cloth. An acclaimed bestseller in 2007, and already a set text in development...

Preventive War and American Democracy.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Preventive War and American Democracy, Scott Silverstone (New York: Routledge, 2007), 264 pp., $125 cloth, $26.95 paper. Scott Silverstone has written an involving biography of the American anti-preventive war norm in the second half of the...

The Globalization of Ethics: Religious and Secular Perspectives.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Globalization of Ethics: Religious and Secular Perspectives, William M. Sullivan and Will Kymlicka, eds. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 305 pp., $80 cloth, $27.99 paper. The Globalization of Ethics promises to help...