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: Crime: A Latin American Challenge for Human Rights
Carlos Basombrío writes on the the issue of crime in Latin America. Crime presents human rights advocates with challenges that must be resolved if ...
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: Reflections on Human Rights at Century's End
Larry Cox reflects on the record of human rights throughout the past century as well as what the future holds for the human rights movement ...
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 ...