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Humanitarian Action and Ethics
This edited volume from Ayesha Ahmad and James Smith offers an expansive tour across the difficult landscape of ethical conundrums in humanitarian action, traversing issues related to “moral distress,” triage and treatment of mental health and Ebola patients, cross-border health provision, humanitarian failures, and humanitarianism’s place in the neoliberal global order.
Briefly Noted
In his latest book, Marcus Schulzke analyzes the ethical traditions of three national militaries—the U.S. Army, the British Army and Royal Marine Commandos, and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)—to highlight the strengths and limitations of different ethical training systems in promoting moral warfare.
A Human Rights Approach to Conflict Resolution
The role of human rights abuses in the causes, dynamics, and consequences of conflict illustrate the importance of a human rights approach to conflict resolution: if human rights are part of the problem, they must be part of the solution.
Sri Lanka 2.0: Independent Inquiry Shows UN “Systemic Failure” in Myanmar
A recent independent inquiry into the involvement of the UN in Myanmar from 2010 to 2018 assigns collective responsibility for the atrocities committed during the 2017 Rohingya crisis to both the UN civil service and UN member states.
What We’ve Been Reading
Welcome to our roundup of news and current events related to ethics and international affairs! Here’s what we’ve been reading this month.
We’re Hiring! Full-Time Assistant Editor
Ethics & International Affairs, the academic journal of Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, seeks a full-time assistant editor.
EIA Summer 2019 issue–Out Now!
We are pleased to announce the publication of the Summer 2019 issue of Ethics & International Affairs. Enjoy full access to the issue through July.
Summer 2019 (Issue 33.2)
The editors of Ethics & International Affairs are pleased to present the Summer 2019 issue of the journal! The highlight of this issue is a roundtable on “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Global Affairs,” with contributions from Heather M. Roff, Steven Livingston and Mathias Risse, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Amandeep Singh Gill, Sara E. Davies, and Patrick Lin and Fritz Allhoff. The contributions consider how artificial intelligence will affect human rights, economic development, international security, global health, and the Arctic frontier in the coming decades. The issue also contains an essay by Kimberly Hutchings on decolonizing global ethics, a peer reviewed feature by Sarah-Vaughan Brakman scrutinizing the ethical underpinnings of the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, a review essay by Inderjeet Parmar on diversity and hierarchy in international politics, and book reviews by Megan Blomfield, Ross Mittiga, Tom Pegram, and Clare Wenham.
