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11. The Politics of Punishing Terrorists [Full Text]

Author:
Anthony F. Lang, Jr.
Publication Date:
03-2010
Content Type:
Journal Article
Institution:
Carnegie Council
Abstract:
Debates about trying and punishing terrorists reveal how the failure to construct a shared normative consensus in international criminal justice continues to bedevil the international community. The only way to achieve this consensus is to engage in the messy business of politics.
Topic:
Politics
Political Geography:
United States, New York, and Europe

12. Introduction

Author:
Terry MacDonald and Raffaele Marchetti
Publication Date:
03-2010
Content Type:
Journal Article
Institution:
Carnegie Council
Abstract:
If global democratization is to advance beyond the current point, it is necessary to confront the practical challenge of institutional design: How might ideals of global democracy be put effectively into practice given the many constraints imposed by the existing global political order?
Topic:
Politics

13. Introduction

Author:
Yitzhak Benbaji
Publication Date:
12-2009
Content Type:
Journal Article
Institution:
Carnegie Council
Abstract:
This symposium is comprised of three key articles from a 2008 conference to honor Michael Walzer. Each article discusses one of the most fundamental aspects of Walzer's philosophy: the moral significance of statehood.
Topic:
Politics

14. "The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives"

Author:
Elazar Barkan
Publication Date:
12-2009
Content Type:
Journal Article
Institution:
Carnegie Council
Abstract:
What is the contribution of religious discourse to a productive and reconciliatory response to mass atrocities? In this wide-ranging book, scholars address the philosophical, ethical, sociological, and religious approaches to post-violence politics and societies.
Topic:
Politics

15. "Messy Morality: The Challenge of Politics"

Author:
Christian Nadeau
Publication Date:
12-2009
Content Type:
Journal Article
Institution:
Carnegie Council
Abstract:
The principal and worthwhile contribution of this book is to resituate the debate about moral realism where it belongs, in terms of its pragmatic employment and its ability to accommodate ideals and values.
Topic:
Politics
Political Geography:
New York

16. The Norms and Politics of Exit: Ending Postconflict Transitional Administrations

Author:
Dominik Zaum
Publication Date:
06-2009
Content Type:
Journal Article
Institution:
Carnegie Council
Abstract:
While the impact of norms on post-conflict statebuilding operations has been well-explored in the literature, the ways in which the same normative frameworks affect the exit practices of such operations has so far remained unaddressed. To fill this gap, this paper examines the impact of the liberal-democratic norms governing statebuilding operations on the timing and process of exit of post-conflict international transitional administrations. To that end, it first examines the concept of exit, arguing that exit is best considered as a process rather than an event. The second section outlines the normative framework that has shaped postconflict statebuilding activities since the end of the cold war, and proposes three ways in which norms can affect exit: first, that norms act as blueprints for statebuilding and can thereby shape benchmarks for exit; second, that norms create "zones of permissibility" that explicitly commit statebuilders to a transitional presence and make exit central to the legitimacy of statebuilding operations; and third, that local actors strategically use norms, in particular those of self-determination and the taboo of permanent control of a territory, to push for an early exit of statebuilding operations. The third section explores both the scope and limitations of the three functions of norms with regard to exit in the context of a brief case study of UNMIK's exit from Kosovo. The article concludes with some observations about the impact of the findings for exit strategies of international actors from statebuilding operations.
Topic:
Cold War and Politics
Political Geography:
Kosovo

17. "Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity"

Author:
Ann Towns
Publication Date:
03-2009
Content Type:
Journal Article
Institution:
Carnegie Council
Abstract:
Kymlicka extends his well known and widely respected defense of a liberal conception of multiculturalism to all states of the world, and asks causal questions about why liberal multiculturalism is spreading internationally.
Topic:
Politics and Multiculturalism

18. "The Moral Force of Indigenous Politics: Critical Liberalism and the Zapatistas"

Author:
Avigail Eisenberg
Publication Date:
03-2009
Content Type:
Journal Article
Institution:
Carnegie Council
Abstract:
Jung offers a normatively informed and empirically grounded critique of approaches that justify minority rights on the basis of the need to protect culture.
Topic:
Politics
Political Geography:
Mexico

19. "Democracy Across Borders: Dêmos to Dêmoi"

Author:
Barbara Buckinx
Publication Date:
03-2009
Content Type:
Journal Article
Institution:
Carnegie Council
Abstract:
Bohman notes the extensive interdependence that characterizes the new circumstances of global politics, and argues that states have reacted either by strengthening state boundaries and increasing centralized authority or by delegating political authority.
Topic:
Human Rights, Politics, and Governance

20. "Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization"

Author:
Stefano Guzzini
Publication Date:
03-2009
Content Type:
Journal Article
Institution:
Carnegie Council
Abstract:
According to Grewal, we need to understand globalization as a process in which we participate by choice but not necessarily voluntarily—one in which common standards allow more effective coordination, yet also entrap us in their pull for convergence.
Topic:
Globalization and Politics