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Living Peacefully with One Another in the Middle East

Intro­duc­tion to Decem­ber 2008 IJWP

The arti­cles in this issue all relate to the Mid­dle East region from Pales­tine to Pak­istan. This region is per­haps the most resis­tant to reli­gious plu­ral­ism in the world. War and vio­lence are often the result of the attempt by a reli­gious or eth­nic group to lay claim on an entire state. […]

The Role of Diasporas in World Peace

Intro­duc­tion to Sep­tem­ber 2008 IJWP

Glob­al­iza­tion of the world’s econ­omy and the migra­tions of peo­ple for polit­i­cal and eco­nomic rea­sons has caused a col­li­sion of cul­tures within nearly every coun­try. While vast empires have his­tor­i­cally been more plu­ral­is­tic as they con­tain migra­tions of cul­tural groups from one part of an empire to another, twenty-first cen­tury migrations […]

A Post-Colonial and Post-Soviet World

Intro­duc­tion to IJWP, June 2008
This issue begins by dis­cussing the elim­i­na­tion of the effects of colo­nial­ism and the Soviet Union which were each, in their own way, the result of empire-building. The idea of rul­ing over the lands of other peo­ple has been around as long as recorded human his­tory. While it runs counter to […]

Congress Shall Make no Law Respecting an Establishment of Commerce

Mod­ern soci­ety con­sists of three major com­po­nents: cul­ture, gov­ern­ment, and the econ­omy. The founders of the United States spec­i­fied the rela­tion­ship between cul­ture and gov­ern­ment in the first amend­ment, which for­bids the estab­lish­ment of reli­gion, but they did not make a sim­i­lar dec­la­ra­tion with respect to the rela­tion­ship between gov­ern­ment and the econ­omy. In their […]

What Constitutes acceptable use of Force?

Intro­duc­tion to IJWP, March 2008

“What Con­sti­tutes the Legit­i­mate Use of Force?” is a thorny and much debated ques­tion in mod­ern polit­i­cal the­ory and just war doc­trine. Under what con­di­tions is the use of force moral? When is it immoral? How much force is enough? What is exces­sive use of force? Do some types of gov­ern­ments, by […]

Wm. F. Buckley, Jr. dies at 82

(Video: Mr. Buck­ley debat­ing U.S. for­eign pol­icy with Noam Chom­sky on Fir­ing Line in 1969.)

William F. Buck­ley Jr., a major force in shap­ing mod­ern Amer­i­can con­ser­vatism and a critic of aca­d­e­mic cul­ture, at his home, at the age of 82.