Recently added articles from Ethics & International Affairs:
More money, less cure: why global health assistance needs restructuring.(Viewpoint essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Is more money for global health always good news? In this brief essay I argue that the answer is "No." I suggest that many of the problems that plague decision-making in global health assistance lie not in the global South but in the North, where the monetary flows originate and where most ...
Pious words, puny deeds: the "international community" and mass atrocities.(Viewpoint essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... When it comes to magnitude of killing, wars among states are now overshadowed by wars within them. Since the mid-1970s, more than million people have been killed in internal wars in Cambodia, Iraq, Bosnia, Rwanda, the Congo, and the Sudan, and countless others have been raped, displaced, ...
Treaty norms and climate change mitigation.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Currently the international community is discussing the regulatory framework to replace the Kyoto Protocol after 2012. This framework can be expected to establish enforceable constraints on greenhouse gas emissions deriving from developed countries and to establish norms--perhaps short of ...
Justice and the convention on biological diversity.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... "Benefit-sharing" is a technical term that was popularized by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which was adopted at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This global convention aims to achieve three objectives: the conservation of biological diversity, the ...
The right to relocation: disappearing island nations and common ownership of the earth.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Straddling the equator, Kiribati consists of thirty-three coral atolls scattered over 3.5 million square kilometers at the center of the vast Pacific Ocean. The capital, Tarawa, is halfway between Hawaii and Australia. Umberto Eco's Island of the Day Before might well be found there since ...