Recent Articles
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
Bioethics and Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of Medicine and War by Michael L. Gross
This book is important as an analysis of some of the least-discussed dilemmas related to warfare. But its value extends beyond its novel subject matter ...
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
International Legitimacy and World Society by Ian Clark
Clark seems caught not just between two concepts—international and world society—but between his two goals: the historical goal of recovering the politics of ...
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
Expanding the Boundaries of Transitional Justice
This essay examines "Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies," Alexander Mayer-Rieckh and Pablo de Greiff eds., and "What Happened to the Women? ...
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
Immigration Policy and "Immanent Critique"
Carens's use of 'immanent critique' to ground his moral prescriptions on the not yet realized normative purposes of the immigration policies of liberal democratic states ...
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
Migrants and Work-related Rights
Carens's discussion of the work-related rights of irregular migrants fails to consider the differentiated employment rights of legal temporary migrants, permanent residents, and citizens.
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
Irregular Migrants: An Alternative Perspective
While accepting Carens's view that irregular migrants can rightfully claim from the state protection of human rights, Miller disagrees that such migrants can claim rights ...
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
The Elusive Rights of an Invisible Population
Carens's suggestion for a so-called firewall protecting irregular migrants' basic rights creates serious problems of coherence and feasibility for the legal and political systems of ...
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
The Rights of Irregular Migrants
Irregular migrants are morally entitled to a wide range of legal rights, including basic human and civil rights. Therefore, states ought to create a firewall ...
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
Just War Theory and the Privatization of Military Force
Private military companies are taking over a growing number of roles traditionally performed by the regular military. This article uses the framework of just war ...
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
The Resurgent Idea of World Government [Full Text]
The idea of world government is returning to the mainstream of scholarly thinking about international relations. Will the world-government movement become a potent political force, ...