Ethics & International Affairs articles from October 2003

Ethics & International Affairs archives from October 2003

Dealing justly with debt.(Panel Discussion)
October 1, 2003... This past year has seen the economic collapse of Argentina, crises in Brazil and Turkey, and the continued suffering of poor countries, all parry as a result of high indebtedness. Sovereign debt can contribute to problems of many kinds. It can...

Resolving international debt crises fairly.
October 1, 2003... If global economic justice is to be achieved, debt crises must be assessed with in the broader context of the international financial system. This system, which has been largely imposed by a small group of powerful financial agents in the...

Reviving troubled economies.(Argentina)
October 1, 2003... There would be few dissenters from the general proposition that we should try to deal justly with debt. We have all watched in horror the collapse that has taken place in Argentina and the enormous cost paid by so many people in that...

The constructive role of private creditors.
October 1, 2003... During the past couple of years, policy-makers in Washington and other capitals of G-7 countries have been flogging the idea that the functioning of the world's financial markets must be improved by making it easier for insolvent governments,...

Sovereign debt restructuring proposals: a comparative look.(ROUNDTABLE: DEALING JUSTLY WITH DEBT)
October 1, 2003... A range of different solutions, as the contributions to this roundtable show, has been proposed regarding the problem of sovereign borrower insolvency. Two prominent factors need to be taken into account in assessing the merits of each...

The revival of empire.
October 1, 2003... The term "empire" has recently gained new currency throughout the world. The books of that name by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, and by Niall Ferguson; Andrew Bacevich's American Empire; the full-throated endorsement of "American empire" by...

Liberal empire: assessing the arguments.
October 1, 2003... This essay is an attempt to take the idea of empire seriously as an element in normative political theory. The sudden reappearance of "empire" as a doctrine to be taken seriously had some of the thrill of the forbidden. Who would dare to...

Empire and moral identity.
October 1, 2003... For many critics, simply to call any political arrangement an "empire" is, at the present political conjuncture, to condemn it. (1) But on what grounds? Both defenders and critics of empire often focus on the effects of empire on the subject...

International justice as equal regard and the use of force.
October 1, 2003... Academic debates about international justice in recent decades have typically ranged over the terrain of distribution and redistribution. From Dame Barbara Ward's Rich Nations, Poor Nations, published in the early 1960s, to calls during the...

The invisible hand of the American empire.
October 1, 2003... Before September 11, 2001, only critics linked the United States with empire. Since then many neoconservative commentators have talked with pride and promise of the "new American empire," "the new Rome," referring to the unipolar structure of...

Network power and globalization.
October 1, 2003... Globalization is often celebrated as an advance of human freedom in which individuals are ever freer to lead fives of their own choosing. Transnational flows of money, goods, and ideas, it is argued, will accompany an increasingly liberal...

Representing contemporary war.(Regarding the Pain of Others)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), 144 pp., $20 cloth. Despite living in an age commonly understood as being awash with images of atrocity, there are few writers who theorize the...

The guilt of nations?
October 1, 2003... On the Natural History of Destruction, W. G. Sebald, trans. Anthea Bell (New York: Random House, 2003), 224 pp., $23.95 cloth. Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past: The Politics of Amnesty and Integration, Norbert Frei, trans. Joel Golb...

One World: The Ethics of Globalization.(World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... One World: The Ethics of Globalization, Peter Singer (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), 208 pp., $21.95 cloth. World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms, Thomas W. Pogge (Cambridge: Polity Press,...

Expanding Global Military Capacity for Humanitarian Intervention.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Expanding Global Military Capacity for Humanitarian Intervention, Michael E. O'Hanlon (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2003), 168 pp., $46.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. As Michael O'Hanlon observes in the opening pages of this...

Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente, Jeremi Suri (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003), 367 pp., $29.95 cloth. Charles de Gaulle and Mao Zedong would seem to make strange bedfellows almost anywhere, perhaps,...

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Chris Hedges (New York: Public Affairs, 2002), 224 pp., $23 cloth. Chris Hedges has a love/hate relationship with war. As a correspondent for the New York Times who covered the Balkans during the...

After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy, Noah Feldman (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), 260 pp., $24 cloth. Should not the United States reconsider its foreign policy with regard to political Islam? Despite...

Washington et le monde: Dilemmes d'une superpuissance.(American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Washington et le monde: Dilemmes d'une superpuissance, Pierre Hassner and Justin Vaisse (Paris: Editions Autrement, 2003), 170 pp., $14.95 paper. American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy, Andrew J. Bacevich...