July 23rd, 2008
Video blog: Cohen, Loury take another look at presidential politics
Op-ed: Bloggingheads.tv on July 7, 2008PGJ Director Joshua Cohen talks to Glenn Loury of Brown University about which presidential candidate would be more likely to bring Bush to justice, what to do if Iran gets nukes, and how we might define the "genetics of social mobility." Read more »
July 22nd, 2008
Book Review: The Gunslinger
CISAC Op-ed: Boston ReviewFSI senior fellow Stephen Stedman reviews John Bolton's book, Surrender Is not an Option, in the July/August issue of the Boston Review. "The memoir reads like an international relations primer done in the style of a modern morality tale," he writes. "Imagine Kenneth Waltz's classic Man, the State, and War as written by Ayn Rand." Read more »
June 26th, 2008
Video blog: Cohen, Lindsay on 'Obamacons'
Op-ed: Bloggingheads.tv on June 17, 2008Program on Global Justice Director Joshua Cohen video debates Brink Lindsay from the Cato Institute on conservative judges, a war that goes on forever, and why we should care about inequality between the well-off and the filthy rich. 
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May 20th, 2008
Is it Africa's turn? FSI scholars look at progress in the world's poorest region
CDDRL, FSI Stanford, FSE, PGJ NewsBy the turn of this century, sub-Saharan Africa had experienced 25 years of economic and political disaster. In the May/June 2008 issue of Boston Review, economist Edward Miguel tracks comparably hopeful economic trends throughout sub-Saharan Africa and suggests that we may be seeing a turnaround. Nine experts, including Rosamond Naylor and Jeremy Weinstein, gauge Miguel's optimism. 
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May 1st, 2008
Video blog: Cohen, Loury square off on Obama's former pastor
Op-ed: Bloggingheads.tv on May 1, 2008Program on Global Justice Director Joshua Cohen and Brown University professor Glenn Loury analyze the controversy unfolding between Barack Obama and his former pastor Jeremiah Wright. The 52-minute "diavlog" on Bloggingheads is tabbed by topic and uses split-screen streaming videos to feature two people in remote locations. Read more »
April 3rd, 2008
Blix talks to Boston Review, will hold Global Justice workshop
Hans Blix, the U.N.'s chief weapons inspector from 2000-03, led the inspections in Iraq prior to the U.S. invasion. On the five-year anniversary of the invasion, Dr. Blix spoke with Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, associate editor of Boston Review Books, about what makes a good diplomat, the Iraq inspections, and his new book from Boston Review Books calling for new, global disarmament efforts. He will discuss his book, Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters, at a special Program on Global Justice workshop Friday, April 4. Read more »
March 24th, 2008
Boston Review editor talks about providing content for electronic public sphere
In the NewsJoshua Cohen, co-editor of Boston Review, director of the Program on Global Justice, and Stanford professor of political science, law, and philosophy, discusses his editorship and how he has helped the magazine increase its visibility and impact. Read more »
March 11th, 2008
International grants totaling $1 million awarded to interdisciplinary Stanford research teams
FSI Stanford, CDDRL NewsFSI scholars Josh Cohen, Thomas Heller, Erik Jensen, Terry Karl, and Helen Stacy are part of research teams that received funding from Stanford's Presidential Fund for Innovation in International Studies (PFIIS), which in February awarded its third round of just under $1 million for interdisciplinary research. "It is especially gratifying to see the younger faculty competing for these grants, eager to generate new knowledge and new solutions and help train a new generation of leaders," said Coit D. Blacker, chair of the International Initiative Executive Committee and director of Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Read more »
March 4th, 2008
Cohen's 10-week Google.org course on poverty and development now available on YouTube
PGJ, FSE NewsFull video of the Google.org course on poverty and development that Program on Global Justice Director Joshua Cohen moderated from September to November 2007 is now available online at YouTube.com. The 10-week course, which focused on understanding poverty and development at the global, national, local, and personal levels, was the first of three courses on Google.org's main areas of philanthropic activity. Read more »
February 27th, 2008
Cohen, Charles Fried on Bloggingheads TV
Op-edIn "A Stanford Liberal's Chat With a Harvard Conservative," Program on Global Justice Director Joshua Cohen talks to Charles Fried, Harvard Law School professor and author of "Modern Liberty and the Limits of Government." Read more »
January 16th, 2008
Charles Beitz, visiting professor at Program on Global Justice
The Program on Global Justice is very pleased to welcome Visiting Professor Charles Beitz to FSI and Stanford University. Professor Beitz is Edward S. Sanford Professor of Politics at Princeton University, author of Political Theory and International Relations and of Political Equality, and editor of Philosophy & Public Affairs. He will be visiting the Global Justice program this spring.
January 14th, 2008
Cohen a 'blogginghead' on NYTimes.com
Op-ed: NYTimes.com on January 8, 2008Program on Global Justice Director Joshua Cohen video debates Glenn Loury of Brown on whether Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton would be more effective in the White House. Read more »
November 29th, 2007
Panel talks workers' rights
In the NewsA panel discussion on "Global Competitiveness: Economics, Ethics, and the Global Labor Force"--moderated by Joshua Cohen, director of the Program on Global Justice at the Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) for International Studies and professor of political science, philosophy, and law--focused on the global push to improve the working environment, mainly in the textile industry. The panel discussed the implication of such efforts for Stanford, which gives out licenses to manufacture its branded apparel.
October 8th, 2007
Cohen leads Google.org course on global poverty and development
In September Google.org launched the first of three courses on its main areas of philanthropic activity--Global Development, Global Health, and Climate Change. Josh Cohen, director of the Program on Global Justice at FSI Stanford and professor of political science, philosophy, and law, is moderating the 10-week course, which focuses on understanding poverty and development at the global, national, local, and personal levels. "Google has an extraordinary collection of creative employees," says Cohen. "This course on global poverty aims to enlist their energetic creativity in addressing one of our most commanding moral challenges." Read more »
May 14th, 2007
Cohen gives Tanner lectures at Berkeley
Program on Global Justice Director Joshua Cohen delivered the prestigious Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the University of California at Berkeley from April 10 to April 12, 2007. In his lectures on "Power, Reason, and Politics," Cohen discussed the role of public reason in a democratic society and global political society. Commentators included Charles Larmore, Elizabeth S. Anderson, and Avishai Margalit. Read more »
January 18th, 2007
Laurence Simon, Visiting Professor at Program on Global Justice
The Program on Global Justice is pleased to welcome Professor Laurence Simon to FSI and Stanford University. Simon is professor at Brandeis University's Heller School, director of Heller School's Sustainable International Development Programs, and associate dean, Academic Planning. He will be visiting the Global Justice program this winter and spring. Read more »
Fellowship in Global Justice
AnnouncementThe Program on Global Justice in collaboration with the Program in Ethics in Society seeks to appoint a postdoctoral fellow for 2007-2008. Applicants should have a doctoral degree from a philosophy, political science, or law program, and research interests in global ethics and politics. Read more »
November 6th, 2006
New FSI Program on Global Justice
New to FSI, the Program on Global Justice aims to bring normative ideas from moral and political philosophy into discussions about human rights, global governance, and access to basic goods, and at the same time to ensure that normative discussions of these issues are informed by the best current social-scientific and policy thinking. The program is directed byJoshua Cohen, professor of political science, philosophy, and law who has just moved from MIT to Stanfor d. The program has three visitors this academic year: Adam Hosein and Helena De Bres, both PhD students in philosophy from MIT writing dissertations on issues related to global justice, and Laurence Simon, professor and director, Sustainable International Development Programs and associate dean for Academic Planning at Brandeis' Heller School (winter and spring quarters). The Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop on Global Justice, coordinated with the Humanities Center, meets every other Friday, 1:15-3 p.m., in Encina Hall 008.
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