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Drones and the International Rule of Law
The international rule of law hinges on the existence of a shared lexicon accepted by states and other actors in the international system. With no independent judicial system capable of determining...
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International Law and the Mediation of Culture
When international relations scholars think about international law they either ignore culture or offer highly deterministic accounts of its role. For the majority of scholars, international law is a...
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Hobbes on the International Rule of Law
Perhaps the most influential passage on the rule of law in international law comes from chapter 13 of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan. In the course of describing the miserable condition of mankind in the...
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The International Rule of Law: Law and the Limit of Politics
The international rule of law is often seen as a centerpiece of the modern international order. It is routinely reaffirmed by governments, international organizations, scholars, and activists, who...
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Political Self-Sacrifice: Agency, Body and Emotion in International Relations...
Political Self-Sacrifice: Agency, Body and Emotion in International Relations, K. M. Fierke (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 281 pp., $95 cloth. What could we learn from examining suicide...
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The Politics and Ethics of Identity: In Search of Ourselves by Richard Ned Lebow
The Politics and Ethics of Identity: In Search of Ourselves, Richard Ned Lebow (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 431 pp., $103 cloth, $34.99 paper. The Politics and Ethics of Identity...
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Eliminating Extreme Inequality: A Sustainable Development Goal, 2015–2030
At the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000, UN member states took a dramatic step by putting people rather than states at the center of the UN’s agenda. In their Millennium...
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The Contemporary Relevance of Buddha
Buddha Amitayus, central Tibet, 1240. Photo credit: Flickr/Kevin Dooley I have often wondered why I have been so deeply moved and influenced by Buddha, right from the time I first encountered his...
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Spring 2014 (Issue 28.1)
TABLE OF CONTENTS This issue features a policy brief by Michael W. Doyle and Joseph E. Stiglitz on eliminating extreme inequality worldwide; essays by Amartya Sen on Buddha as a political thinker and...
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Are “Coalitions of the Willing” Moral Agents?
In “Coalitions of the Willing and Responsibilities to Protect: Informal Associations, Enhanced Capacities, and Shared Moral Burdens,”1 Toni Erskine argues that ‘coalitions of the willing’(CWs) lack...
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