Recent Articles
DEC 18, 2008 • Journal
On Promoting Democracy [Full Text]
The first question that we have to ask about promoting democracy is the question of agency: Who are the promoters? Most recent arguments have focused ...
DEC 18, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: The New Science of Sustainable Dynamics
The concept of sustainability is used as a policy guide today, but beyond this important sense of applied ethics sustainability must also become a science.
DEC 18, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Time Out
As vital as it has become to modern life, keeping track of Coordinated Universal Time is no mean feat.
DEC 18, 2008 • Journal
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
DEC 18, 2008 • Journal
Targeting Civilians in War, and Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality in War [Double Review]
Given the moral stigma and its supposed dubious effectiveness, why does the targeting of civilians occur? Both authors contribute to the still nascent mapping of ...
DEC 18, 2008 • Journal
International Justice in Rwanda and the Balkans: Virtual Trials and the Struggle for State Cooperation by Victor Peskin
Peskin's analysis focuses on "virtual trials": the battles by ad hoc criminal tribunals to secure state cooperation in the enforcement of international law. Concentrating on ...
DEC 18, 2008 • Journal
After Anarchy: Legitimacy and Power in the United Nations Security Council by Ian Hurd
Hurd argues that perceptions of legitimacy undergird how states act, both vis-à-vis one another and in relation to international institutions; in other words, legitimacy ...
DEC 18, 2008 • Journal
Theory of World Security by Ken Booth
Booth aims to illuminate a "New 20 Years' Crisis" that global society is now entering. His central thesis is that in order to respond, we need ...
DEC 18, 2008 • Journal
Apology, Forgiveness, and Moral Repair
These works provide a rich introduction to some of the processes needed in transitions from injustices to more humane relationships. They address different levels of ...
DEC 18, 2008 • Journal Online Exclusive
Michael Goodhart Replies to Eva Erman
Erman's reaction shows that she misses the main point at issue. She insists that democracy means "rule by the people"; I define it as a ...