Essays

Face Reality? After You!--A Call for Leadership on Climate Change [Abstract] | Henry Shue | 04/06/2011
Humanity's so far leaderless approach to dealing with rapidly accelerating climate change embodies a profoundly tragic catch-22 that has, among other twists and contradictions, transmuted justice into paralysis.
Clean Trade in Natural Resources [Abstract] | Leif Wenar | 04/06/2011
The resource curse impedes core interests of importing states, while the policies of these states drive the resource curse. These policies violate importing states' existing international commitments.
Middle-Ground Ethics: Can One Be Politically Realistic Without Being a Political Realist? [Full Text] | Terry Nardin | 04/06/2011
Thinking about international affairs has oscillated between idealism and realism throughout the modern period. Moralists continue to search for a way to combine what is reasonable in each in an ethically defensible middle between those extremes.