Recent Articles
DEC 5, 1999 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 1 (Winter 2000): Human Rights for All? The Problem of the Human Rights Box: Articles: Human Rights in the Aftermath of Kosovo
In the Balkans, where human rights discourse was used to morally justify the loss and destruction of thousands of lives, the human rights language, ...
DEC 5, 1999 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 1 (Winter 2000): Human Rights for All? The Problem of the Human Rights Box: Articles: The Credibility Crisis of International Human Rights in the Arab World
International groups should collaborate with the local Arab movement to develop strategies to build the moral standing of human rights among the public and improve ...
OCT 9, 1999 • Article
The High Road and the Low Road to International Competitiveness
Is there an alternative to wage- and benefit-cutting in the face of the heightened competitive pressure created by globalization?
JUN 9, 1999 • Article
Ethics, Actors, and Global Economic Architecture
Report based on a workshop on Ethics, Actors, and Global Economic Architecture at the Pocantico Conference Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, June 3-5, 1999.
MAY 20, 1999 • Article
Evaluating Justice and Reconciliation Efforts
There seems to be a great desire for what some people have called “moral accounting” at the end of the 20th century. For example, the ...
MAY 12, 1999 • Article
Morgenthau Lecture: National Interest in the Information Age
In the eighteenth Morgenthau Lecture, Harvard's Professor Joe Nye provides several reasons why the information age is likely to enhance rather than diminish American power.
DEC 31, 1998 • Article
Public Philosophy Monographs (1998): Community, Contract, and the Death of Social Citizenship
This article traces the death of the idea of social citizenship--a consensus among the public that citizens are entitled to social as well as civil ...
DEC 30, 1998 • Article
Public Philosophy Monographs (1998): Is There a Public Philosophy in Central-Eastern Europe? Equity and Distribution 'Then' and 'Now'
After the regime change in Hungary the neoliberal/neoconservative orthodoxy has emerged as the dominant public philosophy, breaking the bonds between and within generations, between ...
DEC 13, 1998 • Article
Public Philosophy Monographs (1998): Social Policy in the UK: Creating a New Social Contract
The monographs, and the program, aim to develop a more nuanced understanding of the values underlying public policies in this era of globalization.