I was in my final year of graduate school, writing a
dissertation on the place of persuasion in the success of
contemporary American social movements, when the nearly
two-year-long campaign for the American president who would succeed
George W. Bush...
An institution dating from antiquity whose formal recognition
culminates with the 1951 Geneva Convention on Refugees, asylum has
been confronted with a dramatic increase in applicants during the
past century. However, this burden has been unevenly...
My work uses the international response to piracy, both
historical and contemporary, to assess the effectiveness of
international criminal law and cooperation. Recent decades have
witnessed the unprecedented growth of international criminal law
and...
In recent years, the trafficking of women and children into the
sex sector has become the focus of a steady spate of media
coverage, the subject of abundant policy interventions, and the
target of local, national, and transnational activist...
In this talk, Danielle S. Allen,
UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science, and
Angelos Chaniotis, Professor in
the School of Historical Studies, present arguments from two
perspectives for the continued relevance of antiquity to...
Does war have a time? The idea of “wartime” is regularly invoked
by scholars and policymakers, but the temporal element in warfare
is rarely directly examined. I came to the Institute in 2007–08
intent on exploring the history of war’s impact on...
The mid-1950s saw the invention of a new, highly mythologized
housing type, the bachelor pad, articulated most fully in the pages
of Playboy and in films. The bachelor pad is an apartment
for a single professional man, organized for entertaining
and...
Philosophers have always been interested in moral questions, but
social scientists have generally been more reluctant to discuss
morals and moralities. This is indeed a paradox since the
questioning of the moral dimension of human life and social...
Karl Marx linked the structure of production to the formation of
institutions. According to Marx, religion is like any other social
institution in that it is dependent upon the economic realities of
a given society, i.e., it is an outcome of its...