The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention
Book Review:ISP's President, Ralph Widner, reviews "The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention" by Stanley Hoffman with Commentaries by Robert C. Johansen, James P. Sterba and Raimo Väyrynen, University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana;1996.

He suggests that Hoffman provides a useful framework for panetic research on this highly important and troublesome subject at this juncture in evolution of the world community.

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The Social Health of the Nation
A book review by ISP President Ralph Widner of "The Social Health of the Nation: How America is Really Doing" by Marc Miringoff and Marque-Luisa Miringoff, Oxford University Press, NY/Oxford; 1999.

The review praises the Miringoffs and their associates for continuing to press the claim for more coherent use of non-economic indicators to gauge a population's well-being. He asks the question: if we implemented the Miringoffs' recommendations and applied social indicators to the same degree that policy-makers use economic indicators, would that obviate the need for quantifications of the sort urged by paneticists? He concludes that the two efforts "to measure" are complementary. Neither substitutes for the other.

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Deliver Us From Evil
Commentary by ISP President Ralph Widner based on reviews of the newly published book by William Shawcross, "Deliver Us From Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflict."

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Universal Right to Be Free from Inflicted Suffering?
BOOK REVIEW AND COMMENTARY by Ralph R. Widner, ISP President

"Are Human Rights Universal?" by Thomas M. Franck in FOREIGN AFFAIRS, January/February 2001, v.80, Number 1, pp.191-204.

THE GUILT OF NATIONS by Elazar Barkan, W.W. Norton & Company, New York; 2000.

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President's 2001 Report
The President's Report for 2001.

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Minutes of 2001 Meetings
The minutes of the November 12, 2001 meeting of the Board of Governors and the November 13, 2001 Annual Meeting of members.

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