Publishing Institution: Carnegie Council

Author:: Fiona Robinson
Publication Date:: 06-2007
Content Type:: Journal Article
Institution:: Carnegie Council
Abstract:: Carol Gould's Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights is an impressive, sweeping analysis of some of the most pressing questions in contemporary political philosophy and international ethics. While the book's focus is practical—how to "globalize" democracy, and how to make globalization more democratic—Gould does not shy away from hard theoretical questions, such as the relentless debate over cultural relativism, as well as less-often tackled issues of "embodied politics" and women's rights, and the relationship between terrorism and democracy. The result is a book that is almost overwhelming in scope, yet is saved by a rich, balanced, convincing, and unhectoring analysis.
Topic:: Human Rights and Terrorism

Author:: Jennifer Pitts
Publication Date:: 06-2007
Content Type:: Journal Article
Institution:: Carnegie Council
Abstract:: A Turn to Empire contributes to a project among liberals in recent years to dust off liberalism's historical complexities. In an elegant, impressively documented, and rigorously argued narrative, Jennifer Pitts asserts that imperialism was not essential to the liberal project, as is so often alleged by its critics, most recently and systematically by Uday Singh Mehta in his important study Liberalism and Empire (University of Chicago Press, 1999).
Political Geography:: Britain, France, and Chicago

Author:: Stuart A. Cohen
Publication Date:: 06-2007
Content Type:: Journal Article
Institution:: Carnegie Council
Abstract:: This volume of collected essays, most of which have been published in earlier volumes in the Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics, seeks to bring a more concentrated focus on specifically Jewish outlooks regarding three key themes: "Political Order and Civil Society"; "Territory, Sovereignty, and International Society"; and "War and Peace." According to Michael Walzer, "The point is to display a range of Jewish responses to some of the hardest questions posed by modern democratic politics"
Topic:: Politics, Sovereignty, War, and Law

Author:: Marcus A. Roberts
Publication Date:: 06-2007
Content Type:: Journal Article
Institution:: Carnegie Council
Abstract:: Peter Beinart's new book offers the Democratic Party a "new liberalism," a vision he bases on the party's history of moral leadership and success in combating totalitarianism in the post–World War II era. Opposing those who demonize the "liberal" label, Beinart holds up liberalism as the theme by which America achieved national greatness in the past and the means by which it might do so once again—if only the Democratic Party would embrace it fully once more.
Topic:: War
Political Geography:: America

Author:: John W. Dietrich
Publication Date:: 09-2007
Content Type:: Journal Article
Institution:: Carnegie Council
Abstract:: In his January 2003 State of the Union Address, President Bush called for the U.S to commit $15 billion over five years to address the international HIV/AIDS epidemic. For several reasons, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) caught many people by surprise. The surprise quickly was followed by excitement, tempered by skepticism.
Topic:: Politics
Political Geography:: United States

Author:: Robyn Eckersley
Publication Date:: 09-2007
Content Type:: Journal Article
Institution:: Carnegie Council
Abstract:: This essay seeks to extend the already controversial debate about humanitarian intervention by exploring the morality, legality, and legitimacy of ecological intervention and its corollary, ecological defense.
Topic:: Humanitarian Aid

Author:: Mathew Humphrey
Publication Date:: 09-2007
Content Type:: Journal Article
Institution:: Carnegie Council
Abstract:: "I am sympathetic to Eckersley's assessment of the importance of these problems, but there are certain implications of her (albeit qualified) endorsement of ecological intervention that are worth exploring."

Author:: Simon Dalby
Publication Date:: 09-2007
Content Type:: Journal Article
Institution:: Carnegie Council
Abstract:: Robyn Eckersley's elegant and eloquent argument concerning the limits of "ecological intervention" is constrained by the scope of what is included in her definition of environmental emergency, by what might be in need of protection, and also by what is conventionally understood by notions of intervention related to states and sovereign territory.

Author:: Clare Palmer
Publication Date:: 09-2007
Content Type:: Journal Article
Institution:: Carnegie Council
Abstract:: Though there is much to engage with throughout the article, I shall only focus on one small part of it: the viability of military or legal intervention, in cases that are tentatively described as "crimes against nature." This is due to the difficulties posed by a non-anthropocentric and non-instrumental approach.

Author:: Mark Woods
Publication Date:: 09-2007
Content Type:: Journal Article
Institution:: Carnegie Council
Abstract:: Eckersley's arguments for pre-emptive ecological-humanitarian intervention and ecological defense are intriguing. However, the delicacy of these scenarios requires careful attention to the feasibility and overall benefits of the usage of military force in the prevention of crimes against nature.
Topic:: Humanitarian Aid

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