TABLE OF CONTENTS
The editors of Ethics & International Affairs are pleased to present the Fall 2021 issue of the journal! The highlight of this issue is a book symposium organized by Peter Balint on Ned Dobos's Ethics, Security, and the War Machine, featuring contributions by Peter Balint; Neta C. Crawford; C. A. J. Coady; Ned Dobos; Cécile Fabre; Christopher J. Finlay; David Rodin; and Cheyney Ryan. Additionally, the issue includes a feature article by Philipp Gisbertz-Astolfi on the reduced legal equality of combatants in war and an essay by Hendrik Schopmans and Jelena Cupać on ethical AI, gender equality, and illiberal backlash politics. It also contains a review essay by Andreas Papamichail on the global politics of health security, and a book review by Claire Finkelstein.
ESSAY
Engines of Patriarchy: Ethical Artificial Intelligence in Times of Illiberal Backlash Politics 
Hendrik Schopmans and Jelena Cupać
BOOK SYMPOSIUM: ETHICS, SECURITY, AND THE WAR-MACHINE
Introduction: Is a Military Really Worth Having?
Peter Balint
Democracy and the Preparation and Conduct of War 
Neta C. Crawford
Nation-States, Empires, Wars, Hostilities
Cheyney Ryan
War Crimes and the Asymmetry Myth
C. A. J. Coady
War, Duties to Protect, and Military Abolitionism
Cécile Fabre
Are States under a Prospective Duty to Create and Maintain Militaries?
Ned Dobos
Deconstructing Nonviolence and the War-Machine: Unarmed Coups, Nonviolent Power, and Armed Resistance
Christopher J. Finlay
Justice Between Wars
David Rodin
FEATURE
Reduced Legal Equality of Combatants in War
Philipp Gisbertz-Astolfi
REVIEW ESSAY
The Global Politics of Health Security before, during, and after COVID-19
Andreas Papamichail
REVIEW
War By Agreement: A Contractarian Ethics of War
Yitzhak Benbaji and Daniel Statman
Review by Claire Finkelstein
