When international observers criticize the quality of elections, do these expert evaluations reflect ‘Western/American’ values? Or are…
Book abstract: What does global justice look like, and how can leadership help get us there? The contributors explore justice in various…
Some footnotes to Super Tuesday after a night that never ended:
-- Mitt Romney's narrow victory in Ohio inevitably brought back memories…
The Republican presidential nomination contest is dragging on because Mitt Romney is a weak front-runner—right? That's the media narrative…
The essay discusses the negative effects of the politicization of
religion in the U.S. The authors note that modern U.S. partisan…
Since the end of the Cold War, security studies have broadened to take into account a wide range of non-military threats ranging from…
Agent-based Modeling of the Effects of Social Norms on Enrollment in Payments for Ecosystem Services
Conservation investments are increasingly being implemented through payments for ecosystem services (PES) for the protection and…
1. A clear objective: ending the dictatorship: As the world is drawn to the meeting of the Friends of Syria in Tunisia, it remains at a…
Despite the massive scale of global inequalities, until recently few political philosophers or bioethicists addressed their ethical…