Motley readings worthy of our attention…

The following articles, and one book (in no particular order), I think well warrant our attention:

• Diane Marie Amann, “The President & the Prison Camp” (cross-posted at IntLawGrrls)
• Dan Joyner, “Syria Update, and the Evolution of a Right of Counterproliferation Oriented Preemptive Self-Defense”
• Charles S. Maier, “The Return of Political Economy”
• Neil deMause, “Contingency Plan: Outsourcing Education”
• Christopher McCrudden, “In Pursuit of Human Dignity: An Introduction to Current Debates”
• Adam Hanieh, “The Oslo Illusion”
• Allegra Pacheco, “Expanding the Legal Paradigm for Palestine: An International Law Conference at Birzeit University”  
• Wajahat Ali, “Against the Brahmins: An Interview with Pankaj Mishra”
• Richard M. Locke, “Can Global Brands Create Just Supply Chains?”
• From the editors of Himāl Southasian, a series of articles under the rubric, “Farms, Feasts, Famines”
• Melvyn Dubosky, “Does Organized Labor Have a Future?”
• Bill Fletcher, Jr., “Now What? Labor Unions and the Inevitability of Class Struggle”
• Michael Hirsch, “So Why Don’t We Have Better Unions?”
• Spencer J. Pack, “How the Right Got Adam Smith Wrong on the Eve of Environmental (and hence Economic) Catastrophe”
• Lisa Herzog, “Markets” (from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• M. Lynx Qualey, “5 Arabic Books to Read ‘Before You Die’”
• Forthcoming: Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown (London: Verso, 2013)