Category: International Relations

December 19, 2008

A Discussion of Killing Civilians on "Making Sense of Darfur"

Recently there has been a very lively discussion at the Social Science Research Council’s blog Making Sense of Darfur about Hugo Slim’s Killing Civilians: Method, Madness, Morality. The discussion is ongoing but there have already been postings from the blog’s...

November 7, 2008

Laurent Cohen-Tanugi Speaks at the Carnegie Council

The following post is by Devin Stewart, director of Global Policy Innovations, the editor of Policy Innovations, publisher of the Fairer Globalization and Ethical Blogger blogs, and the founding editor of Carnegie Ethics Online. French intellectual Laurent Cohen-Tanugi visited the...

November 5, 2008

Gerald Curtis on What an Obama Presidency Means for Japan

“There are several reasons why Japan should look forward to an Obama presidency. First of all, Obama is the first person to become President for whom Asia is not a far away region with which he has little personal experience...

October 27, 2008

Interview with Laurent Cohen-Tanugi

As part of his recent visit to the United States, which included talks on the West Coast, and in Chicago, and New York City, Laurent Cohen-Tanugi, author of The Shape of the World to Come: Charting the Geopolitics of a...

October 14, 2008

Japan Times Reviews Troubled Apologies

The Japan Times recently reviewed Alexis Dudden’s Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States. The review begins: Alexis Dudden engagingly explores how the nexus of politics, war memory and apology shapes contemporary trilateral relations between Korea, Japan and...

October 10, 2008

Somalia and Piracy

In a recent post on Comment is Free, part of the Guardian’s excellent Web site, Jeremy Sare discusses the continuing chaos in Somalia. He argues that the recent incidents of piracy off Somalia’s coast is yet another reminder of the...

July 2, 2008

International Trade & Labor Standards: A Proposal for Linkage

Bringing together the approaches of ethics and economics, Christian Barry and Sanjay G. Reddy propose ways in which the international trading system can support poor countries in promoting the well-being of their peoples. Barry and Reddy elaborate their argument in...

June 11, 2008

A Review of Olivier Roy’s The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East from "A Fistful of Euros"

We had meant to post something about this sooner but earlier this month A Fistful of Euros (AFOE) reviewed Olivier Roy’s The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East. (Read a pdf of the Roy’s introduction here.) AFOE is an...

June 9, 2008

Bruce Hoffman and the Feud over Terrorism

Yesterday’s New York Times “Week in Review” featured an article about the growing dispute between experts on the nature of the terrorist threat. One of the central figures in this debate is Bruce Hoffman, professor at Georgetown University’s School of...

April 16, 2008

CIAO: Expert Analysis on Tibet

During the month of April, Columbia University Press’s premier online database of international affairs, Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), opens its front page with an in-depth analysis of the anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet for free viewing to the public. In...

April 1, 2008

Sales and Special Offers

A definitive guide to world cinema today, a new history of the Hudson River, and Olivier Roy’s new book on the Middle East— all these books are currently available at a 20% discount. While the CUP blog is mostly devoted...