Essays

Business and Human Rights in Conflict [Excerpt] | Olga Martin-Ortega | 10/08/2008
Can current policy and legal responses make businesses part of the solution rather than part of the problem? And can companies be held accountable—socially, legally, or by some other means—for whatever negative actions they might have taken in situations of armed conflict?
Reuniting Ethics and Social Science: The Oxford Handbook of International Relations [Full Text] | Christian Reus-Smit, Duncan Snidal | 10/08/2008
The quality of our theoretical argumentation, the diversity and insights of our methods, and our general level of understanding are markedly better than a generation ago. However, this progress has been driven by a division of labor with increased specialization that has led each part of the field to become narrower.