Essay
Artificial Intelligence: Power to the People
Before we can assess how artificial intelligence will affect IR over the coming decades, we first need a clear understanding of what AI is and is not. As a way of introducing the roundtable on “AI and the Future of Global Affairs,” Heather M. Roff brings some conceptual clarity to the discussion and argues that much of the AI landscape revolves around epistemological questions that are not, in fact, particular to AI.
Humor, Ethics, and Dignity: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
This essay explores humans’ unique ability to understand context, something that is evident in both humor and ethics, and something that AI lacks.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Seventy: Progress and Challenges
In this essay, Ş. İlgü Özler examines global progress toward achieving the ideals enshrined in the UDHR, which was adopted seventy years ago in 1948.
The Empire of International Legalism
In this essay, Ian Hurd uses the provocative term “empire” to show how the international legal system is also a political system based on the dominance of law over politics for governments around the world.
Introduction: Alternatives to War
Some of the most controversial foreign policy issues in the first years of the Trump administration have involved alternatives to war. This roundtable seeks to improve our understanding of the ethics of some of these alternatives.
The Case for Foreign Electoral Subversion
In this essay Cécile Fabre argues that, under certain conditions and subject to certain constraints, foreign electoral subversion may be justified as a means to prevent or end large-scale human rights violations.
Covert Positive Incentives as an Alternative to War
In this essay, James Pattison argues that covert positive incentives are preferable to both overt incentives and covert force.
The Ethics of Countering Digital Propaganda
Corneliu Bjola argues in this essay that the concept of moral authority offers an original framework for responding to digital disinformation campaigns.
