Political and Legal
Kurt M. Campbell, ed.
This important volume, edited by a leading figure in the foreign policy establishment, makes an eloquent argument for why today's decision-makers have no choice but to act on the coming dangers of global climate change.
In this engaging and sweeping critique of the United Nations, Weiss argues that the global body has never been more troubled -- nor more needed.
Kapstein and Converse argue that democratic transitions are more likely to last if the government provides institutional checks on the power of the executive, creating credible and legitimate public authority.
Evans is one of the leading intellectual forces behind the doctrine of "the responsibility to protect" and this book provides a grand statement of the idea and describes the troubled world setting in which it emerged and its far-ranging implications.
In this fascinating account of how leading democratic states struggle over conflicts between hard-nosed strategic calculations and liberal democratic and humanitarian norms, Walldorf argues that it is in the legislative bodies of democratic states that ferment over human rights is concentrated.
