Alternatives: Global, Local, Political articles from January 2004

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political archives from January 2004

Cosmopolitan guidelines for humanitarian intervention.
January 1, 2004... An increasing demand has arisen in the last decade for humanitarian interventions. (1) In some cases, such as in Somalia, Bosnia, and Kosovo, these interventions have actually taken place. In many others, such as Rwanda and East Timor, they...

The rule of law, inequality, and the International Criminal Court.
January 1, 2004... The rule of law is not a transcendent principle or objective fact but a regulative ideal. The core of this ideal is that different legal subjects are mutually constrained by noninstrumental obligations. Stated somewhat differently, the rule of...

In the name of progress and peace: the "standard of civilization" and the universalizing project.
January 1, 2004... Robert Wright has written that "the more closely we examine the drift of biological evolution and, especially, the drift of human history, the more there seems to be a point to it all." In explaining "the arrow of the history of life, from the...

Between aspirations and assimilations: the world's poor meet the cosmopolitans.
January 1, 2004... The Malawi famine, in 2002, has exacted a heavy price. Many people have resorted to eating wild grasses and roots, many of which are mortally poisonous. A cholera outbreak spread quickly due to the weakened condition of the people, killing more...

7-11, 9/11, and postpolitics.
January 1, 2004... The immanence of terror, regardless of its source, is evident not Only in the protagonists' behaviour, but also in their choice of methods, pathological copies of the enemy like those made by a retrovirus of the attacked...