Carnegie Council

A specialist in postwar European politics, philosophy, and history, Arthur is interested in the persistent effects of decolonization on the process of globalization, the ethics of political and revolutionary violence, and the recent history of human rights and humanitarian intervention.

Arthur received her Ph.D. in European intellectual history from the University of California, Berkeley, and her B.A. in international relations from Johns Hopkins. She has taught at both UC Berkeley and the New School University.

Resources by this Author:

• Ethics in a Violent World
• Ethics in a Violent World
• "A Threat to One Is a Threat to All:" Nonstate Actors, Collective Security, and the Reform of the UN
• Ending Tyranny in Iraq: A Debate
• Humanitarianism under Fire
• The September 11 Effect [Full Text]
• Senator Kerrey and the War That Still Haunts Us

"Sartre" in John Merriman and Jay Winter, eds., Scribner's Encyclopedia of Europe, 1914-2000 (forthcoming).

"The Persistence of Colonialism: Sartre, the Left, and Race in Postcolonial France, 1970-1975," in Jonathan Judaken, ed., Race After Sartre (forthcoming).

Review Essay of Bernard-Henri Levy, Sartre: The Philosopher of the Twentieth Century, Ronald Aronson, Sartre & Camus: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel That Ended It, and Ronald E. Santorini, Sartre on Violence: Curiously Ambivalent, for Theory and Society (forthcoming).

"The September 11 Effect," Ethics & International Affairs 16, no. 2 (2002), 1.

"Third Worldism Redux," Ethics & International Affairs 16, no. 1 (2002), 135-42.

Review of Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century, and Norman M. Naimark, Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe, Ethics & International Affairs 15, no. 1 (2001), 245-49.