Online Exclusives

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 03/13/2023 Essay

Voice at the Point of Sovereign Default

Much has been written about the questionable legitimacy of extending credit to states where it is likely that the funds will benefit corrupt leaders, or ...

Online Exclusive 03/13/2023 Essay

Introduction: Emerging Issues in Sovereign Debt

Indebtedness has long played a role in the struggle of countries in the Global South to achieve economic and social development. The essays in this ...

Online Exclusive 03/13/2023 Essay

Roundtable: Emerging Issues in Sovereign Debt

The editors of Ethics & International Affairs are pleased to present an online exclusive roundtable on emerging issues in sovereign debt. The collection examines China's growing ...

Online Exclusive 03/3/2023 Blog

What We've Been Reading

Welcome to our roundup of news and current events related to ethics and international affairs! Here’s some of what we’ve been reading this ...

Online Exclusive 02/28/2023 Blog

How U.S. Gas Gives Options to Europe but Increases Pollution Back Home

Two different conversations are being held in Europe and the United States, sparked by the same conflict. The Russo-Ukrainian War, heading into its second year, ...