Recent Articles
DEC 5, 1999 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 1 (Winter 2000): Human Rights for All? The Problem of the Human Rights Box: Articles: Why More Africans Don't Use Human Rights Language
What explains the current crisis of human rights and the retreat from the human rights paradigm as an engine of struggle? To begin to ...
DEC 5, 1999 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 1 (Winter 2000): Human Rights for All? The Problem of the Human Rights Box: Articles: To Our Readers: Human Rights for All? The Problem of the Human Rights Box
In this issue we examine the barriers that prevent a broad cross-section of people from embracing and benefiting from human rights.
OCT 9, 1999 • Article
The High Road and the Low Road to International Competitiveness
Is there an alternative to wage- and benefit-cutting in the face of the heightened competitive pressure created by globalization?
JUN 9, 1999 • Article
Ethics, Actors, and Global Economic Architecture
Report based on a workshop on Ethics, Actors, and Global Economic Architecture at the Pocantico Conference Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, June 3-5, 1999.
MAY 20, 1999 • Article
Evaluating Justice and Reconciliation Efforts
There seems to be a great desire for what some people have called “moral accounting” at the end of the 20th century. For example, the ...
MAY 12, 1999 • Article
Morgenthau Lecture: National Interest in the Information Age
In the eighteenth Morgenthau Lecture, Harvard's Professor Joe Nye provides several reasons why the information age is likely to enhance rather than diminish American power.
DEC 31, 1998 • Article
Public Philosophy Monographs (1998): Community, Contract, and the Death of Social Citizenship
This article traces the death of the idea of social citizenship--a consensus among the public that citizens are entitled to social as well as civil ...
DEC 30, 1998 • Article
Public Philosophy Monographs (1998): Is There a Public Philosophy in Central-Eastern Europe? Equity and Distribution 'Then' and 'Now'
After the regime change in Hungary the neoliberal/neoconservative orthodoxy has emerged as the dominant public philosophy, breaking the bonds between and within generations, between ...
DEC 13, 1998 • Article
Public Philosophy Monographs (1998): Social Policy in the UK: Creating a New Social Contract
The monographs, and the program, aim to develop a more nuanced understanding of the values underlying public policies in this era of globalization.
DEC 11, 1998 • Article
Nizer Lectures (1994–1998): The Destiny of Freedom: Political Legacies of the Twentieth Century
Speaking in 1998, Dr. Buultjens identifies a recurring cycle of conflict followed by political and economic disintegration that distinguishes the 20th century. He asks: "Do we ...