Rosa Brooks

TL;DR: In this article, the authors look at why it is so difficult to create "the rule of law" in post-conflict societies such as Iraq and Afghanistan, and offer critical insights into how policy-makers and field-workers can improve future rule-of-law efforts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the existing state-based international legal framework stands in the way of developing effective responses to state failure and propose an alternative theoretical framework designed to spark debate about better legal and policy responses to failed states.

TL;DR: In the international sphere, questions about promoting the rule of law and reducing violence have been of increasing urgency since September 11. as discussed by the authors argues that most such programs have been unsuccessful, in large part because they rest on inadequate and under-theorized conceptions of what constitutes the Rule of Law.

TL;DR: In this article, an outmoded version of the Law of Armed Conflict is presented, and the boundaries between national security and domestic affairs are discussed. But it does not address the problem of war without end.

TL;DR: In this article, the moral meaning of violence and the moral nature of violence are discussed. But the authors do not discuss the role of race in these discussions, and do not address race relations.