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WFI Publications: Minerva
The Journal Minerva
Minerva is a biannual publication that offers cutting edge analysis on global issues and proposals for reforming global governance. It is named in honor of Minerva Bernardino, one of the four women who signed the UN Charter and a major force behind the creation of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.Recent Issues
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Minerva, Fall 2011 (Volume 39) Editorial Comment: First & Goal; Book Review: Power and Arrogance; The New Road to Europe; Book Review: European Union & Global union; Reform of the United Nations Security Council & General Assembly; The UN as Truth commission; Interview: The Big Picture; Six Scenes of Endeavor; Tradional Values; Interview: Human Rights, Fundamentalism, Power and Prejudice; Notes on Dehumanization and Extermination; The Trials and Test Faced by R2P; And More! |
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Minerva, Sprinng 2011 (Volume 38) Genocide Prevention, Peace & Justice, True African Leaders Have Nothing to Fear From ICC, Mass Atrocities and Armed Conflict, Learning To Think Differently About National Security, Human Security and the New Rules of War and Peace, World Peace Through Law, Asia and the American Future, The Struggle to Achieve Arab Human Rights, UN Human Rights Council Formal Review, Women’s Human Rights, Leveraging the Power of New Technologies, Local Media, and Local Communities in Humanitarian Responses |
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Minerva, Fall 2010 (Volume 37) Elements of Diversity, Regional Integration & Conflict Prevention, Kashmir: A Way Forward, Afghanistan, Sovereignty, Cognition, and Ethics, Ethics in International Relations, Old World Order, Corporate Social Responsibility, Socially Responsible Investment & UNDIP, UN Human Rights Alphabet Reports, Responsibility Not to Veto: A Way Forward, Book Reviews |
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Minerva, Spring 2010 (Volume 36) Patriotism & Cosmopolitanism, An Agency for Women, Already Embattled, Can the UN Human Rights Council Be Fixed?, Nuclear Security: Cooperating to Prevent Catastrophe, Securing Vulnerable Nuclear Materials: Meeting the Global Challenge, and more... |
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Minerva, Fall 2009 (Volume 35) Achieving Nonproliferation Goals, World Peace through Law: Rethinking an Old Theory, Responsibility to Protect: Translating Ideas into Capacity, New Instruments for Addressing Fragile Nations, Women’s Rights & Global Financial Architecture, Global Arms Trade Treaty, and more... |
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Minerva, Spring 2009 (Volume 34) Human Rights and the Responsibility to Protect, No Funding for Peace Talks Unless Women Are at the Table, A United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, HRC & Defamation of Religions Controversy, and more... |
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Minerva, Fall 2008 (Volume 33) Human Security: The Seven Challenges of Operationalizing the Concept, The Responsibility to Protect: From an Ethical Principle to an Effective Policy, MDGs in Jeopardy, The Accra HLF3: Any Closer to Development Effectiveness?, Gender Equity Architecture at UN, Gender Training for Peacekeepers, The Future of Gender Justice, and more... |
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Minerva, Spring 2008 (Volume 32) The Responsibility to Protect and the ICC: America’s New Priorities, United Nations Emergency Peace Service, International Justice and the Challenge of Enforcement, The Economics of Insecurity, A UN Covenant on the Right to Water, and more... |
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Minerva, Fall 2007 (Volume 31) Sustainable Water Supply in the 21st Century, Population: Closing the “Baby Gap”, Dark Underbelly of the World’s Most “Peaceful” Countries, Rape and Post-Conflict Justice, On the Value of Weighted Decisions in UN Voting and Representation, and more... |
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Minerva, Spring 2006 (Volume 30) An Unavoidable Clash of Civilizations?, Critical Cosmopolitans, When Culture Overrides the Law, Substantive Citizenship: Feminist Politics in a Fundamentalist World, The Current State of International Law - & Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Peoples and the ICC |
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