From Ethics & Global Politics, Monique Deveaux (Williams): Normative Liberal Theory and the Bifurcation of Human Rights; Hauke Brunkhorst (Flensburg): Dialectical Snares: Human Rights and Democracy in the World Society; Eduardo Mendieta (Stony Brook): From Imperial to Dialogical Cosmopolitanism?; and Saladin Meckled-Garcia (UCL): Do Transnational Economic Effects Violate Human Rights? A review of Civilising Globalisation: Human Rights and the Global Economy by David Kinley. Roland Burke on his book Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights. A review of Human Rights in the Global Information Society. From Human Rights and Human Welfare, a roundtable on the United Nations and human rights. From World Press Review, Justin Frewen on the state-building woes of the UN. A review of National Responsibility and Global Justice by David Miller. A review of Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power and Ethics. From ISR, a review essay on humanitarian imperialism and its apologists. When humanitarianism hurts: If consequences matter and not just intentions, the responsibility to protect is an irresponsible norm — it makes a promise that cannot be fulfilled. Revisiting the Responsibility to Protect: Can a state-centric principle be saved by non-state actors? From New Left Review, Tom Hazeldine profiles the conflict-instigation NGO International Crisis Group and the parallel courses of its Atlanticist advocacy and of Western military aggressions.
