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A time of unrestricted armed conflict

Mary L. Dudziak (Emory): War and Peace in Time and Space. David T. Mason, Jesse Hamner, Eric Keels, and Jason Michael Quinn (North Texas): Big Wars versus Small Wars and the Politics of Durable Peace. Mathias Thaler (Edinburgh): On Time in Just War Theory: From Chronos to Kairos. Uwe Steinhoff (Hong Kong): Just Cause and “Right Intention”. Gabriella Blum and John C. P. Goldberg (Harvard): War for the Wrong Reasons: Lessons from Law. Seth Lazar (Oxford): Associative Duties and the Ethics of Killing in War. Harry van der Linden (Butler): Iris Young, Radical Responsibility, and War. Jonathan Thompson Horowitz (Open Society): Human Rights as a Weapon of War; and Ending the Global War: The Power of Human Rights in a Time of Unrestricted Armed Conflict. Richard C. Eichenberg (Tufts) and Richard J. Stoll (Rice): The Acceptability of War and Support for Defense Spending: Evidence from Fourteen Democracies, 2004-2013. James D. Fearon and David Laitin (Stanford): Does Contemporary Armed Conflict Have “Deep Historical Roots”? From the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, a special issue on Baudrillard and war, including Dan Oberg (SDE): Forget Clausewitz; Andreja Zevnik (Manchester): War Porn: An Image of Perversion and Desire in Modern Warfare; and Michal Klosinski (Silesia): What is the “Place” of War? Tanisha M. Fazal on how the reports of war’s demise have been exaggerated. Talia Hagerty on how the world is getting less peaceful every year — and it’s costing the global economy about $1,350 per person. Andrew Sheng argues that cyberspace, land, air, sea, and space now define the basis of global conflict. John Daniel Davidson reviews The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century by David Reynolds (and more).