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APR 6, 2011 Journal

Moral Dilemmas of Modern War: Torture, Assassination, and Blackmail in an Age of Asymmetric Conflict by Michael L. Gross [Full Text]

Michael Gross believes that much contemporary warfare is so different from past armed conflicts that many of the old moral and legal prohibitions should no ...

APR 6, 2011 Journal

International Criminal Law and Philosophy, Larry May and Zachary Hoskins, eds. [Full Text]

"International Criminal Law and Philosophy" raises fundamental questions and examines novel issues in the emerging field of international criminal law. May and Hoskins have provided ...

APR 6, 2011 Journal

The Evolution of International Security Studies by Barry Buzan and Lene Hansen [Full Text]

The book contains a recognizable mix of Copenhagen and English School viewpoints, which, according to Ken Booth, means that there is altogether too little about ...

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A Response to "Precommitment Regimes for Intervention"

Buchanan and Keohane argue that institutional reform is required to reverse the inertia that has too often constituted the international response to intra-state crises. Their ...

APR 6, 2011 Journal

Globalizing Responsibility for Climate Change

In distributing the costs associated with climate change, most scholars have focused exclusively upon mitigation burdens. Few consider the distribution of adaptation costs, which concern ...

APR 6, 2011 Journal

Precommitment Regimes for Intervention: Supplementing the Security Council

We consider two different types of alternatives to the Security Council for authorizing military action across borders: a democratic coalition and a precommitment regime, by ...

APR 6, 2011 Journal

Clean Trade in Natural Resources

The resource curse impedes core interests of importing states, while the policies of these states drive the resource curse. These policies violate importing states' existing ...

APR 6, 2011 Journal

Face Reality? After You!--A Call for Leadership on Climate Change

Humanity's so far leaderless approach to dealing with rapidly accelerating climate change embodies a profoundly tragic catch-22 that has, among other twists and contradictions, transmuted ...

APR 6, 2011 Journal

Middle-Ground Ethics: Can One Be Politically Realistic Without Being a Political Realist? [Full Text]

Thinking about international affairs has oscillated between idealism and realism throughout the modern period. Moralists continue to search for a way to combine what is ...

APR 6, 2011 Journal

From the Editor [Full Text]

Twenty-five years ago the Carnegie Council published the first issue of Ethics & International Affairs with the aim of addressing head-on the intersection of these two ...