Ethics & International Affairs articles from September 2006

Ethics & International Affairs archives from September 2006

Immigration, multiculturalism, and the welfare state.
September 1, 2006... In most countries today, the general public does not support large-scale permanent immigration, and policies designed to exclude, marginalize, or assimilate immigrants reflect this popular attitude. Some would-be immigrants are unable to gain...

Should a cosmopolitan worry about the "brain drain"?(Viewpoint essay)
September 1, 2006... Should cosmopolitans worry about the "brain drain'--the emigration of highly educated, skilled nationals of developing countries? (1) In this essay, we take it that a cosmopolitan position on international migration involves three commitments:...

Holes in the rights framework: racial discrimination, citizenship, and the rights of noncitizens.
September 1, 2006... Dilcia Yean was born on April 15, 1996, in the Dominican Republic to a Dominican woman of Haitian descent. Although the Dominican constitution establishes the principle of jus soli (and thus assigns citizenship to those born on Dominican...

Crimes Against Humanity.(SYMPOSIUM)(Crimes Against Humanity: A Normative Account)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Crimes Against Humanity: A Normative Account is the first of a multi-volume work on the moral foundations of international criminal law. (1) Crimes against humanity raise especially difficult questions in international law, since they are...

Beyond moral minimalism.(RESPONSE TO CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY)(Crimes against Humanity: A Normative Account)
September 1, 2006... Larry May's Crimes Against Humanity tackles the most basic questions about international criminal law (ICL). (1) As one of the very first efforts to think through the intricate philosophical questions raised by international trials for mass...

Ending impunity.(RESPONSE TO CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY)
September 1, 2006... International criminal law is advancing rapidly. Eleven years ago a Bosnian concentration camp guard named Dusko Tadic became the first person ever convicted in an international criminal tribunal set up by the United Nations. The court that...

The persistent fiction of harm to humanity.(RESPONSE TO CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY)
September 1, 2006... In the months preceding the trial of Adolf Eichmann before an Israeli court, Karl Jaspers and Hannah Arendt exchanged a series of letters in which they discussed the trial and the genocidal crimes that led to it. Arendt defended the authority...

Humanity, international crime, and the rights of defendants.(REPLY TO THE CRITICS)(Viewpoint essay)
September 1, 2006... I am deeply grateful for this symposium on my work--especially for the kind words from those critics who do not otherwise pull their punches. In what follows, I will try to respond to the very stimulating questions and challenges posed by my...

Humanitarian Intervention.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Humanitarian Intervention, Nomos 47, Terry Nardin and Melissa S. Williams, eds. (New York: New York University Press, 2005), 320 pp., $55 cloth. Humanitarian intervention (HI)--the use of force by external parties within a state's...

International Human Rights and Islamic Law.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... International Human Rights and Islamic Law, Mashood A. Baderin (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 304 pp., $45 paper. The overall goal of Mashood Baderin's book is twofold: to offer a theoretical justification of international human...

Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law Into Local Justice.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice, Sally Engle Merry (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), 264 pp., $20 paper. Sally Engle Merry's book brings a much-needed anthropological...

Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: on Reparations Politics.
September 1, 2006... Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics, John C. Torpey (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006), 224 pp., $35 cloth. Why should we care about past injustices? In his new book, John Torpey identifies the concern...

The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, Gillian Brock and Harry Brighouse, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 272 pp., $70 cloth, $24.99 paper. Cosmopolitan visions of international justice have, so far, evolved...

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, Jeffrey D. Sachs, foreword by Bono (New York: The Penguin Press, 2005), 416 pp., $27.95 cloth, $16 paper. The End of Poverty, by the internationally renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs,...