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The readable Ignatieff

by Aaron Wherry on Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:08pm - 87 Comments

The readable Ignatieff Google Scholar—a search engine for academic journals and papers—is a fairly decent way to kill a few hours. It’s also what started this, an unofficial collection of Michael Ignatieff’s freely available writings, assembled here for all your educational or objectionable purposes.

Do try to contain yourselves.

Academic Journals
Intervention and State Failure, Dissent Magazine
The Challenges of American Imperial Power, Naval War College Review
Canada in the Age of Terror, The Center for Foreign Policy Studies
Ethics in the New War, Canadian Military Journal
Human Rights as Politics, Human Rights as Idolatry, Princeton
Why Eastern Europe’s Revolutions Could Succeed, Foreign Affairs
Mobilizing Public Support for the United Nations, Center for Public Leadership
Blood and Belonging, Harvard
The Burden, Australian Universities Review

The Guardian
The Observations of Jean-Paul Sartre
Who do we think we are?
Who killed Frank Olson?
It’s war, but it doesn’t have to be dirty
What will victory look like?
Something happened
Why Bush must send in his troops
Friends disunited
Iraqis fight a lonely battle for democracy

New York Times
His Art was All He Mastered, book review
Minor Differences Mean a Lot, book review
Future Meltdown, book review
Fault Lines, book review
Dead Souls, book review
In the Name of the Most Merciful, book review
Return of the L-Word?, op-ed
Counting Bodies in Kosovo, op-ed
The Next President’s Duty to Intervene, op-ed
A Bungling UN Undermines Itself, op-ed
The Reluctant Imperialist, feature
Blood Money, book review
The Right Trial for Milosevic, op-ed
What did the CIA do to his father?, feature
Exhibit A: Blood Sisters, feature
What Terror Keeps Teaching Us, feature
Is the Human Rights Era Ending?, op-ed
Barbarians at the Gates, book review
Nation-Building Lite, feature
When A Bridge Is Not A Bridge, feature
American Empire: The Burden, feature
I Am Iraq, feature
Why are We in Iraq? (And Liberia? And Afghanistan?), feature
The Year of Living Dangerously, feature
Lesser Evils, feature
Mirage in The Desert, feature
The Terrorist as Auteur, feature
Democratic Providentialism, feature
The Uncommitted, feature
Who Are Americans to Think Freedom is Theirs to Spread?, feature
Iranian Lessons, feature
The Broken Contract, feature
Getting Iraq Wrong, feature
Common Sense to the Rescue of Policy, book review

Books (limited previews only)
Wealth and Virtue, 1986
The Rights Revolution, 2000
Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry, 2003
Charlie Johnson in the Flames, 2003
American Exceptionalism and Human Rights, 2005

(Note. Prospect Magazine had made available all of Ignatieff’s writing for them, but the link seems to have died since they redesigned their website. Older pieces from the Guardian and Observer are archived, but require a subscription or a fee. Academic essays and papers that are similarly hidden from view were not included.)

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http://www.intensedebate.com/people/Harbles Harbles

Ok, lets all post a quote.

From ETHICS AND THE NEW WAR
by Dr. Michael Ignatieff

Editor’s Note: This is the text of the 2001 Young
Memorial Lecture, delivered by Dr. Ignatieff at Royal
Military College on 25 October 2001.

…"One of the most difficult aspects of understanding the force of ethical imperatives in the use of military violence is to drop that idea of ethics as a set of handcuffs and to begin to think of ethics as a force enabler — to think of ethics not in a negative sense but in a positive sense, as a force multiplier.
The Canadian Forces, because of their long peacekeeping tradition, know that ethical behaviour in the field is a powerful force multiplier — precisely because we don’t have that much force anyway."…

Thanks Aaron.
Thanks Google Scholar.
Felix

Thanks a lot, Aaron. great compilation.

Now let's watch the cons plumb every article for attack ad fodder.
Pauline

I've just finished reading a novel by Ignatieff … "Scar Tissue" – not bad stuff, but didn't see it on your list …
Garry

I flush more common sense down the toilet every day than this idiot has realised in his entire life.

http://intensedebate.com/people/craigola craigola

Because I genuinely need to know, 1 – how exactly do you measure it to know for sure, and 2 – how much sense does it make to flush common sense down the toilet?
Anon

You certainly flushed a lot before posting your comment.

siamdave

Noone who believes the nonsenses Ignatieff professes to believe, such as Bush et al 'fightng for Democracy!!!' in Iraq or Afghanistan (or ay of the dozens of other countries they have invaded in the last hunder+ years) or that we bombed Yugoslavia for 76 days to 'prevent genocide', has any business calling themselves an 'intellectual'. The man is intelligent, no doubt, and writes well, no doubt – but an 'intellectual' needs to have some courage and honesty as well as intelligence, courage and honesty to challenge power, rather than sell out to it. Those who believe such people are 'intellectuals' would be in the same boat. Like everything else in Capitalistland, illusion and lies are being substituted for reality, as the citizens allow their brains to be mushified rather than challenge the Emperor's edicts. (website is http://www.rudemacedon.ca/greenisland.html , which the automatic machine does not like and will not allow for some reason, if anyone is interested in a bit more truthful intellectualism such as we engage in on Green island …)
http://gapingwhole.wordpress.com/ Em.

It boggles my mind that someone with such a great career would want to go into politics. How is he not loosing his mind?
Maggie

How about a list of Harper's writings ….?
Mars

over education –doesn't mean U have it!!! It means the know how– to govern & run the gauntlet! It takes experience –being able 2 read people—find a commom ground 4 all–not just yourself–also deal with financial affairs– & not talk with "forked tongue"