Anthony F. Lang, Jr., is director of the Centre for Global Constitutionalism and senior lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. His research focuses on international political theory, specifically humanitarian intervention, political responsibility, the just war tradition, punishment, and international rules. Lang is the author of Agency and Ethics: The Politics of Military Intervention (2002) and Punishment, Justice, and International Relations: Ethics and Order after the Cold War (2008), and has edited or coedited several other volumes. His current work focuses on global constitutionalism, the role of judges in the Middle East, and the ethics of military force.
Featured Work
SEP 3, 2003 • Transcript
Teaching Environmental Values
How do you incorporate the environment into a curriculum on ethics and international affairs?
APR 17, 2003 • Article
U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Ten Years after the Gulf War
This report draws on a conference held at the Carnegie Council headquarters on February 15, 2001. The conference, co-sponsored by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, was ...
FEB 20, 2003 • Podcast
Turkey: Islamic Secularism or Secular Islam?
Does the election of an Islamist party in Turkey represent a challenge to the secular Turkish system? Council Fellow Ishan Dagi's take on ...
FEB 20, 2003 • Transcript
Turkey: Islamic Secularism or Secular Islam?
Does the election of an Islamist party in Turkey represent a challenge to the secular Turkish system? Council Fellow Ishan Dagi's take on ...
DEC 13, 2002 • Article
Feature Articles from Inprint Newsletter (2001–2004): Justice after War
On October 11, 2002, President Bush back-pedaled from a suggested plan to install an American-led military government in Iraq, stating that the United States "would never seek ...
NOV 13, 2002 • Article
Civilians and War: Dilemmas in Law and Morality
Rules for distinguishing between civilians and soldiers during armed conflict have been around since the medieval period, but the debate surrounding recent civilian deaths in ...
OCT 11, 2002 • Article
The Catholic Church and American Foreign Policy
This 2002 workshop focuses on the role of Catholicism in U.S. foreign policy. By examining how the American Catholic church has evolved in the United ...
SEP 19, 2002 • Article
Judaism: Power and Interpretation
How has the Jewish religion tradition addressed violence and war? (Report on a 09/19/02 Carnegie-Georgetown Forum)
NOV 19, 2001 • Article
Milosevic in The Hague: Trial or Error?
How and where should we try the world's most infamous criminals? Does the trial of Slobodan Milosevic at The Hague provide support for trying ...
OCT 20, 2001 • Article
The Ethics of the "New War" in the Aftermath of 9/11
The U.S.-led coalition against terrorism has begun bombing Taliban targets in Afghanistan. But will this achieve its aims, or merely provoke the terrorists ...