Ethics & International Affairs articles from September 2008

Ethics & International Affairs archives from September 2008

An exchange: the morality of immigration.
September 22, 2008... Writing in Ethics & International Affairs 22, no. 1, Mathias Risse presented a novel way to think about the problem of immigration in the context of global justice, adopting the standpoint of the common ownership of the earth. His essay can be...

Reuniting ethics and social science: the Oxford Handbook of International Relations.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... If International Relations as a scholarly endeavor is to remain relevant it must speak to today's most pressing dilemmas of political action in world politics: theoretically, analytically, and practically. How should we combat terrorism? When,...

Business and human rights in conflict.
September 22, 2008... With respect to the social role of business, companies were traditionally held to be responsible only to their shareholders. Their duty was to generate profit while complying with the laws of the countries in which they operate. A given company...

Horizontal accountability in intergovernmental organizations.
September 22, 2008... In an era in which the number of global and regional problems requiring collective action has grown dramatically, intergovernmental organizations (IOs) have become increasingly important. Yet as they are called on to deal with a broadening...

Keeping the peace in Africa: why "African" solutions are not enough.
September 22, 2008... The past two decades have witnessed a range of international actors struggling to maintain what the UN Charter refers to as "international peace and security" on the African continent. Now, in the twenty-first century, security challenges in...

Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village, Daniel H. Deudney (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006), 384 pp., $35 cloth, $24.95 paper. With Bounding Power, Daniel Deudney makes a masterly...

The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought, Cemil Aydin New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), 320 pp., $32.50 cloth. Working at the interstices of International Relations and...

Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature, David Schlosberg (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 256 pp., $99 cloth. Environmental issues have loomed large in domestic and international politics for decades, but...

Taking on the World's Repressive Regimes: The Ford Foundation's International Human Rights Policies and Practices.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Taking on the World's Repressive Regimes: The Ford Foundation's International Human Rights Policies and Practices, William Korey (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 336 pp., $75 cloth. With Taking on the World's Repressive Regimes,...

Realism Reconsidered: The Legacy of Hans J. Morgenthau in International Relations.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Realism Reconsidered: The Legacy of Hans J. Morgenthau in International Relations, Michael C. Williams, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 232 pp., $99 cloth, $45 paper. Sixty years ago Hans Morgenthau published his landmark...

Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, Ethics.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, Ethics, Michael Barnett and Thomas G. Weiss, eds. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2008), 320 pp., $55 cloth, $19.95 paper. With essays that devise innovative ways to advance...

Sovereignty: God, State, and Self.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Sovereignty: God, State, and Self, Jean Bethke Elshtain (New York: Basic Books, 2008), 334 pp., $35 cloth. Jean Elshtain's latest offering is a dense yet engaging theological and intellectual history of the concept of sovereignty, based on...

Ethics Education in the Military.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Ethics Education in the Military, Paul Robinson, Nigel de Lee, and Don Carrick, eds. (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008), 224 pp., $124.95 cloth, $49-95 paper. This is a stimulating invitation to discussion of the history, organization,...

Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers?(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers? Zygmunt Bauman (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008), 272 pp., $25.95 cloth. A pearl perched on a half shell adorns the cover of Zygmunt Bauman's Does Ethics Have a Chance in...