Essays

Pious Words, Puny Deeds: The "International Community" and Mass Atrocities [Full Text] | Rajan Menon | 09/11/2009
Most of the large-scale violence in the world will continue to occur within societies rather than between or among states. Yet the international community still has not developed the ethical-legal consensus or the institutions required to manage this terrible problem.
More Money, Less Cure: Why Global Health Assistance Needs Restructuring [Full Text] | Daniel E. Esser | 09/11/2009
Is more money for global health always good news? No, argues Esser, who suggests that many of the problems that plague decision-making in global health assistance lie not in the global South but in the North, where the monetary flows originate and where most policies are conceived.