From Stanford Law Review, a symposium on Global Constitutionalism, including John O. McGinnis (Northwestern) and Ilya Somin (George Mason): Should International Law Be Part of Our Law? Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz (Georgetown): Condorcet and the Constitution: A Response to The Law of Other States (and a response by Eric A. Posner and Cass R. Sunstein). An excerpt from State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace by Christian Davenport. From Monthly Review, Noam Chomsky on Imminent Crises: Threats and Opportunities.

From The Chronicle, an APSA forum on The Future of the Jihadi Movement: a 5-Year Forecast. Princeton economist Alan Krueger says lack of civil liberties, not poverty, breeds terrorism. From CJR, a cover story on Prisoner 345: What happened to Al Jazeera’s Sami al-Haj.

From Jewcy, a series of articles on the first genocide of the 21st century. An excerpt from Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide by M. W. Daly. An excerpt from The African Human Rights System, Activist Forces and International Institutions by Obiora Chinedu Okafor. 

A decade ago, geologists found signs that one of the least-known countries in Africa, the tiny island nation of Sao Tome and Principe, might hold a king's ransom in oil. The first drop of oil has yet to be produced. But these days, little Sao Tome may have attracted ample supplies of something else, U.S. government investigations suggest: oil-related corruption. An article on Guinea Bissau, the world's newest narco state. In Mauritania, seeking to end an overfed ideal: To Mauritania’s men, fat is sexy, so women resort to force-feeding and steroid use in pursuit of obesity. 

From Cafe Babel, who's afraid of multiculturalism? Living together peacefully - long a European ideal. Positive discrimination and the question of national identity menace the multi-culti ideal, be it in the UK or France. Could ethnic quotas be the miracle remedy? Timothy Garton Ash on weaving a new identity: At 50, Europe is not one story, but many; and a cause to celebrate: European malaise? Where? Just say no to referendums: Despite appearances, referendums are not democratic. All they do is hand power and influence to malign media oligarchs.

How Europe is drowning in wine: EU subsidies have spurred big surpluses and made the continent uncompetitive with "New World" wines. Now reform is afoot. Each year, the EU spends hundreds of millions of euros transforming unsold wine into cleaning products and ethanol. But a proposal to reform the way Europe does wine has not been well received by vintners. Sex Video Clouds Europe's YouTube Launch: The EU has long had a public relations problem. To help improve its image, the bloc launched its very own YouTube platform in late June — complete with some of European film's best sex scenes.