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Selected Writings

Carter: Public Lives and Their Meaning for Us A True Citizen and A Good Man
Regret Indefintely A decision in Trump v. United States we will regret indefinitely
O'Connor & Kissinger: Public Lives and Their Meaning for Us Some overlooked significance with Sandra Day O'Connor, Wounded and wounding legacy for Henry Kissinger
The World He Sought: Nazrul in Coolies and Laborers Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies 2023, Vol.10, No. 1 Kazi Nazrul Islam, the national poet of Bangladesh, envisioned a future possibility for humankind. This article shows that the vision has been informing some of the thinking of the last and present century and reviews its policy implications for our future.
A State Funeral Denied? He Stood Higher Mikhail S. Gorbachev (1931-2022), leader of the former Soviet Union (USSR), and, likely, the most important world public figure during the last half of the twentieth century, died during the closing days of August 2022. He was denied a state funeral, by Russia, but considerable praise was heaped on him by many in the West and the Global South.
Shinzo Abe: The Nationalist Against Collective Security Sometimes death brings to life opportunities to do what we had previously failed to.
A Very Poor Decision The recent overruling of Roe vs Wade is not the only troubling decision the Supreme Court has recently made.
Nazrul and the Idea of Dignity Kazi Nazrul Islam: Poetry, Politics, Passion (London: Writers, Inc., 2019) Niaz Zaman (Editor)
Foundations of US Stature and Security in the World The New England Journal of Public Policy Vol. 28 # 2 (2016)
Trans-disciplinarily from a Problem-Based Perspective Transdisciplinarity Interfaces Innovation in the Life Sciences (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Academic Research, 2014) Eunsook Hyun, Rainer Paslack, Hilmar Stolte (Editors)
The Candle Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge Vol. 7 (2009) Special Issue on The Human Promise of Poetry in Memories of Mahmoud Darwish
What Have We Learned from the Wars of the Twentieth Century? Sticks and Stones: Living with Uncertain Wars (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006) Padraig O’Malley, Paul Atwood, Patricia Peterson (Editors)
Women, Human Rights, and Development Sharpened Edge (New York: Praeger, 2003) Stephanie Atley (Editor)
The United Nations and the Magna Carta for Children (Boston: John McCormack Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2003)
Teaching, Learning and Judging: Some Reflections on the University and Political Legitimacy Achieving Against the Odds: How Academics Become Teachers of Diverse Students (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001) Esther Kingston-Mann, Tim Sieber (Editors)
Children As Subjects of International Law: The Conquest of the Ideology of Care Review of International Affairs Vol. 50 (1999)
The Significance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights The Journal of Oriental Studies Vol. 37 # 2 (1998, English version in #4, 1999)
Children, Moral Development, and Global Transformation World Order Vol. 23 (Spring, 1997)
Children, a Global Ethic, and Zones of Peace Peace Review Vol. 9 #2 (1997)
Socio-Cultural Rights and Development Journal of Third World Studies Vol. 14 #2 (1997)
The World Court and the Legality of Nuclear War Review of International Affairs Vol. 48 (February-March, 1997)
A Human Challenge Harvard International Review Vol. 18 #3 (Summer, 1996)
Who Speaks for the World? Gandhi Marg Vol. 16 # 3 (1994)
The US, the New World Order, and the Inter-American System Journal of Third World Development Vol. 9 #2 (Fall, 1992)
Japan: A New Role in International Relations Pacifica Vol. 2 (January, 1991)
The Right to Self-Determination in International Law Quest Vol. 4 #1 (April-June, 1990)
Why Did the US Withdraw from UNESCO? Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives Vol. 8 #1 (March, 1989)
Dreyfus v. von Fink and Filartiga v. Pena-Irela: Some Reflections Two Public Orders The Indian Journal of Political Science Vol. 48 #3 (Fall, 1987)
The Moral Disorder of Nuclear Deterrence Transnational Perspectives Vol. 13 (1987)