Daedalus articles from January 2003

Daedalus archives from January 2003

The challenge of global justice now.(human rights )
January 1, 2003... How should the world deal with violations of human rights? Consider two tests of that question. In the early 1990s, Serbian forces, carrying out what they called ethnic cleansing, raped and tortured and murdered thousands of Muslims in...

Compassion & terror.(World Trade Center Attacks, 2001)
January 1, 2003... The name of our land has been wiped out. --Euripides, Trojan Women Not to be a fan of the Greens or Blues at the races, or the light- armed or heavy-armed gladiators at the Circus. --Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 1 ...

World governance: beyond utopia.(a study)
January 1, 2003... Ever since the rise of nation-states in the modern period, diplomats and political theorists have struggled to devise international institutions that might more effectively secure peace and some measure of justice among nations. The very...

What human rights mean.(United Nations)
January 1, 2003... The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the founding document of modern human rights doctrine. Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, it was composed by an international committee of experts representing a great range of...

The limits of idealism.(international politics)("The Twenty Years Crisis, 1919-1939" by E. H. Carr)
January 1, 2003... In 1939 E. H. Carr published what was to become a modern classic on international relations, The Twenty Years Crisis, 1919-1939. Carr has usually been seen as a defender of realism and a debunker of idealism, but his thinking was much more...

The responsibility of nations: a moral case for coercive justice.(research)
January 1, 2003... Debates about international justice typically range over the well traversed terrain of distribution and redistribution. From Dame Barbara Ward's Rich Nations, Poor Nations published in the early 1960s, to calls during the Jubilee year of 2000...

Atrocity & legalism.("Homage to Catalonia")
January 1, 2003... George Orwell ended his Homage to Catalonia with a lulling account of his return to the calm of London from the chaos of the Spanish Civil War: "the huge peaceful wilderness of outer London, the barges on the miry river, the familiar streets,...

Everyday global governance.(research)
January 1, 2003... With the creation of a new International Criminal Court and the sudden proliferation of international, regional, and hybrid criminal tribunals for Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, Kosovo, East Timor, and--potentially--Cambodia and Sierra Leone,...

The case for a volunteer UN military force.(includes statistical tables)(United Nations)
January 1, 2003... Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been awash in hot wars. Most have been waged within, rather than between, states. (1) The Yearbook of the Swedish International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) annually tabulates what it terms...

The Institute.(Poem)
January 1, 2003... There was no need to put it on an island. Turning off an ordinary-looking side road, We'd walked through the usually well-guarded gate Unchallenged, and passed on Into some sort of paved courtyard That seemed to serve no purpose save to...

Exchanges.(narrative)(Column)
January 1, 2003... Petrol and hay trucks speed past. French travelers, beginning their holiday season, zip by at ninety miles an hour. They go so fast, Sonia thinks. As Walt drives, she tries to recall the pictures Katrine sent. The snapshots of Katrine and...

On the age of the universe.(research)
January 1, 2003... How did the world begin? How old is it? Do mysterious and invisible forces determine its fate? Surprisingly enough, such questions are now at the forefront of scientific research. Over the past century, old ideas about the cosmos and our...

On failures of freedom & the fear of science.(critique)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... Allen Funt was one of the great psychologists of the twentieth century. His informal demonstrations on Candid Camera showed us as much about human psychology and its surprising limitations as the work of any academic psychologist. Here is one...

On poetry & the idea of nature.(modernist critique)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... What is nature. Nature is what is.... But is nature natural. No not as natural as that. --Gertrude Stein, The Geographical History of America Is nature a social and historical construct? Or does it have primacy over all our...