An open access publication of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Winter 2003

On International Justice

Editor
James Miller
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The challenge of global justice now 

by Anthony Lewis

 

Compassion & terror

by Martha C. Nussbaum

 

World governance: beyond utopia

by Stanley Hoffmann

 

What human rights mean

by Charles Beitz

 

The limits of idealism

by Jack Goldsmith & Stephen D. Krasner

 

Coercive justice

by Jean Bethke Elshtain

 

Atrocity & legalism

by Gary J. Bass

 

Everyday global governance

by Anne-Marie Slaughter

 

The case for a UN force 

by Carl Kaysen & George Rathjens
 


Poetry & Fiction


The Institute

by John Hollander
 

Exchanges 

by Mary Morris
 


Notes


on the age of the universe 

by Wendy L. Freedman


on failures of freedom & the fear of science

by Daniel C. Dennett


on poetry & the idea of nature

by Bonnie Costello


 

Image:
The spiral galaxy Messier 100 is one of the brightest members of the Virgo Cluster, which is the closest cluster of galaxies to our galaxy, the Milky Way, containing more than two thousand spiral, elliptical, and irregular galaxies. Embedded within its majestic spiral arms are myriads of newly formed stars, some of which are the rare, luminous stars known as Cepheid variables. This picture is a combination of images from the FORS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope at Paranal Observatory in Chile, taken with red (R), green (V) and blue (B) filters. Image courtesy of the European Southern Observatory. A true color image of Messier 100 (M100), a spiral galaxy within the nearest massive cluster of galaxies, the Virgo cluster. Embedded within its majestic spiral arms are myriads of newly formed stars, some of which are the rare, luminous stars known as Cepheid variables. The high resolution afforded by the Hubble Space Telescope allows astronomers to measure Cepheids to much greater distances than previously possible. See Wendy L. Freedman on The age of the universe, pages 122–126. Image © nasa and Space Telescope Science Institute (stsci).
Image:
The spiral galaxy Messier 100 is one of the brightest members of the Virgo Cluster, which is the closest cluster of galaxies to our galaxy, the Milky Way, containing more than two thousand spiral, elliptical, and irregular galaxies. Embedded within its majestic spiral arms are myriads of newly formed stars, some of which are the rare, luminous stars known as Cepheid variables. This picture is a combination of images from the FORS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope at Paranal Observatory in Chile, taken with red (R), green (V) and blue (B) filters. Image courtesy of the European Southern Observatory. A true color image of Messier 100 (M100), a spiral galaxy within the nearest massive cluster of galaxies, the Virgo cluster. Embedded within its majestic spiral arms are myriads of newly formed stars, some of which are the rare, luminous stars known as Cepheid variables. The high resolution afforded by the Hubble Space Telescope allows astronomers to measure Cepheids to much greater distances than previously possible. See Wendy L. Freedman on The age of the universe, pages 122–126. Image © nasa and Space Telescope Science Institute (stsci).