Coming Home Again: Repatriation and Peace Durability

Trade Negotiations Coming Again Soon

T his December nations are to begin another round of trade negotiations under the World Trade Organization (WTO). Agricultural issues will again play a prominent role. While it is too early to identify specific issues facing negotiators, at a broad level much of the agenda is known. Mainly these issues reflect perceived deficiencies in the Uruguay Round Agreement. This article identifies those ...

Coming to Terms with the Capitalist Peace

The Third Hypothesis of Aristophanes' Peace again

Going Home Again

In Thomas Wolfe’s 1940 novel You Can’t Go Home Again, the main character, George Webber, writes a novel that depicts his hometown LQ DQ XQÁDWWHULQJ OLJKW OHDGLQJ WR GHDWK WKUHDWV DQG H[FOXVLRQ RI WKH author from his home community. More than simply a case of vigilante exclusion, Webber’s severed connection with his hometown is part of his exploration of a changing America, about the relationshi...

Distributive justice and the durability of peace agreements

This study explores the relationship between principles of distributive justice (DJ) and the durability of negotiated agreements. Sixteen peace agreements negotiated during the early 1990s were coded for the centrality of each of four principles of DJ – equality, proportionality, compensation, and need – to the core terms of the agreement. The agreements were also assessed on scales of implemen...