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  • SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
    4/18/2022

    Is International Cooperation Possible?

    by Tiziana Stella and Campbell Craig

    The United Nations system, based on the sovereignty of nations, is increasingly inadequate to the global problems facing humanity. There are other international traditions that can guide a better world order. 

  • SOURCE: Black Perspectives
    2/22/2022

    The Black Social Gospel, Radical Politics and Internationalism

    by William Hogue

    The rise of the Black social Gospel after emancipation was a key development that prefigured the later Civil Rights movement, but it also developed a more radical stream of criticism of American militarism. 

  • SOURCE: Common Dreams
    1/29/2022

    Let's Not Allow the Great Powers to Destroy the World

    by Lawrence Wittner

    Historically, vast military resources have made nations more, not less, eager for military confrontation. The risk is too great today to allow a revival of great power rivalry. 

  • SOURCE: Balkinization
    9/20/2021

    Fishing, Not Catching, in the History of the Law

    by John Fabian Witt

    John Fabian Witt writes about a critical exchange over Samuel Moyn's book on humanitarian war, and questions Moyn's conception of the relationship between a scholar's politics and their methodology. 

  • 3/28/2021

    Can Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Overcome the Opposition?

    by Lawrence Wittner

    People who want to end the nightmare of nuclear destruction that has haunted the world since 1945 should consider widening the popular appeal of nuclear weapons abolition by strengthening the UN’s ability to provide international security.

  • SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
    2-4-18

    Our Enemy, Ourselves

    by William J. Astore

    Ten Commonsense Suggestions for Making Peace, Not War