Research using human embryonic stem cells raises an array of complex ethical issues, including, but by no means limited to, the moral status of developing human life. Unfortunately much of the public discussion fails to take into account this complexity. Advocacy for liberal and conservative positions on human embryonic stem cell research can be simplistic and misleading. Ethical concepts such ...

This article examines the effectiveness of UN peacebuilding missions in democratizing war-torn states, emphasizing those missions that include democracy promotion components in their mandates. Based on a multinominal logistic regression, we reveal that democratization is significantly more likely if a UN peacebuilding mission is deployed. Furthermore, regimes categorized as more liberal at the ...

Student Council voted last night in an emergency session to appeal for faculty support in its campaign for campus democracy. The motion requests "the various faculties to determine that the question of a binding referendum (on the draft) is a matter of administrative affairs and therefore one to be rightly determined by j£e administration " President lue l l G. Gallagher has placed the question...

The paper presents a brief analysis of the procedural approach towards constructing liberal political conceptions justice and democracy. Treatment J. Rawls’s evolution shows negative consequences abandoning external substantive criteria for theory evaluation, including efficiency, justification, truth. It also offers justification “epistemic turn” in contemporary theory. return classical episte...

Abstract Since about 2008, the rise of autocracy and decline democracy has threatened modern liberal international order. To counter threat authoritarian law, United States should collaborate with democracies from Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America to develop new plurilateral institutions treaties create a “liberal order.” This Essay shows that states are planting seeds future order in their r...

This chapter asks the question: what will international law of democratic governance look like in 2050? The question reflects fact that notwithstanding pluralism, there is much normative architecture supporting liberal norms on plane. not matched by equally expansive enforcement, but weak mechanisms do exist. speculates alternative scenarios and they might mean for persistence democracy as a go...