Recent Articles
MAR 16, 2014 • Journal Online Exclusive
The Ethics of Avoiding Conflict with China
Is there a policy prescription that can avoid turning predictions of a Sino-American clash into a self-fulfilling prophecy?
MAR 15, 2014 • Journal
Political Self-Sacrifice: Agency, Body and Emotion in International Relations by K. M. Fierke
This book brings what seem like senseless acts of desperation into focus as strategically intelligible and culturally meaningful techniques of resistance.
MAR 14, 2014 • Journal
The International Rule of Law: Law and the Limit of Politics
The international rule of law provides political resources with which states and other actors legitimize and delegitimize contending policies. The atomistic nature of the interstate ...
MAR 14, 2014 • Journal
Hobbes on the International Rule of Law
The practice of state compliance with international law is not that easily demonstrated to be the product of legal constraint. Indeed, the problem goes beyond ...
MAR 14, 2014 • Journal
International Law and the Mediation of Culture
This essay advances an alternative perspective on culture and international law. After exploring in greater detail determinist accounts of this relationship, I reverse the typically ...
MAR 14, 2014 • Journal
Drones and the International Rule of Law
U.S. drone strikes represent a significant challenge to the international rule of law. This is not because they “violate” international law; ironically, drone strikes ...
MAR 14, 2014 • Journal
Kosovo to Kadi: Legality and Legitimacy in the Contemporary International Order
Whence does international law derive its normative force as law in a world that remains, in many respects, one where legitimate politics is practiced primarily ...
MAR 14, 2014 • Journal
Coalitions of the Willing and Responsibilities to Protect: Informal Associations, Enhanced Capacities, and Shared Moral Burdens
There has been widespread support for the idea that the so-called international community has a remedial moral responsibility to protect vulnerable populations from grave human ...
MAR 14, 2014 • Journal
Modern Pluralism: Anglo-American Debates Since 1880, Edited by Mark Bevir
Talk of “pluralism” has become ubiquitous in political theory, but it is often vague.
MAR 14, 2014 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Dogs Ally with Elephants in the Fight Against Illegal Ivory
Sniffer dog teams are proving invaluable in the interdiction of illegal ivory and other wildlife parts as the contraband flows from Africa to Asia.