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Sissela Bok

Sissela Bok
 is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Harvard University School of Public Health.

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On the Presidential First Use of Nuclear Weapons

What differentiates the crimes of a terrorist, hacker, or non-state actor from those of a president who launches a nuclear weapon?
Elaine Scarry, Jonathan King, Bruce Ackerman, Kennette Benedict, Bruce Blair, Sissela Bok, Rosa Brooks, John Burroughs, Hugh Gusterson, Edward Markey, Jim McGovern, Zia Mian, William Perry

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Response: From Part to Whole

Against all forms of nationalism and ethnocentrism, Martha Nussbaum challenges us to take seriously, in education as in politics, the cosmopolitan ideal that grants equal respect to all. She illuminates both what...
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