“The Crime He Committed Was to Steal a Cow”: Moral Luck and Gacaca
By rewarding confession and promoting reintegration, the Rwandan justice program Gacaca was marked by a permissive attitude toward individual moral responsibility.
Gender Quotas: Towards an Improved Democracy
Gender quotas improve democracy by improving the quality of representation for everyone and by giving voice to gender-related issues that would otherwise be invisible.
The Call for a New Subject: Gender and the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Covid-19 crisis has further revealed the need for International Relations to more fully incorporate the ideas of gender and feminist theorists.
Violence and Otherness: A New Perspective on Decolonisation Beyond Fanon
One can extend Frantz Fanon’s original account of violent de-othering beyond decolonization by establishing a dialogue between Fanon and the work of Tzvetan Todorov.
Can Marxism in International Relations Offer Solutions to the Eco-Crisis?
Marx’s conception of nature was ecological to its core, and Marxism as an IR theory provides a possible framework to discuss global environmental policy.
Cultural Relativism in R.J. Vincent’s “Human Rights and International Relations”
Vincent is successful in combating cultural relativist opposition to universal human rights, insofar as his core argument pre-emptively eschews questions of relativism.
TRIPS-Plus Provisions and the Access to HIV Treatments in Developing Countries
The inclusion of TRIPS-Plus provisions in recent trade agreements limits the ability of developing countries to obtain medicines needed to face the HIV epidemic.
Trust Me If You Can: Voluntary Sustainability Programs in the Uranium Industry
The credibility of Voluntary Sustainability Programs (VSPs) in the uranium industry depends on their transparency, inclusion and rigor.
The Constraints of Transitional Justice in Promoting Intergroup Reconciliation
To promote reconciliation after conflict, there must be a combination of top down methods, like criminal prosecutions and truth commissions, and local initiatives.
Eating Last and the Least: Analysing Gender in Global Hunger
The level of coordination between international and national actors is a critical determinant of global hunger rates for women.
