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Online Exclusive • 05/20/2026 • Online Essay

Trump’s Imperial Infantilism and Europe’s Failure of Moral Witness: What Arendt Can Teach us About Political (Im)Maturity

Online Exclusive • 05/14/2026 • Essay

Leverage through Complicity

The essay explores risks of the U.S. presidential pardon system, analyzing how individuals can be compelled to do bad things through complicity in wrongdoing.

Online Exclusive • 04/27/2026 • Online Essay

Humanitarian Aid for Minerals: Trump’s Transactional Statecraft and the Weaponization of Dependency

Framed as a pragmatic “America First” foreign policy, conditioning aid risks institutionalizing exploitative dynamics and contributing to human suffering under the guise of development cooperation.

Online Exclusive • 09/28/2026 • Online Essay

Re-centering Ethics for Refugees: Attention, Not Action

What would it mean to “re-center ethics” for refugee policies and practices today? This essay suggest that we consider what refugee ethics asks of individuals, ...

Online Exclusive • 09/28/2026 • Online Essay

Global Ethics Day 2026: Re-centering Ethics

For the 13th annual Global Ethics Day, taking place October 21, 2026, the editors of Ethics & International Affairs invited brief essays for an online roundtable on this ...

Online Exclusive • 09/28/2026 • Online Essay

The Ethics of Military Ethics: Teaching Right and Wrong to People Trained to Kill

Military ethics education today must contend with the potential negative effects of the increasing prioritization of speed and optimization in war, and the ways in ...

Online Exclusive • 09/28/2026 • Online Essay

Dignity Subtraction: Re-centering Ethics in a World That Makes Some Lives Count Less

"Dignity subtraction" is the process by which people are accorded less moral value based on things like race, gender, or socioeconomic status. Re-centering the ethics ...

Online Exclusive • 09/28/2026 • Online Essay

The Ethics of Responsibility in a World of Military AI

Responsibility in warfare remains a human affair. Rather than ask “what is required to make instruments of violence legally compliant?,” we should ask “is what ...