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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

By Hossein Dabbagh & Patrick Hassan

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.

By Drew Thompson

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.

By Ben Hazelton

Online Exclusive • 12/18/2020 • Essay

Roundtable: Latin American Responses to COVID-19

The editors of Ethics & International Affairs are pleased to present an online exclusive roundtable on Latin American experiences of and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

By The Editors

Online Exclusive • 12/4/2020 • Blog

How Will the Biden Administration Adjudicate a Clash of Values?

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 11/23/2020 • Blog

Competing Ethics in the Biden Administration?

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 11/10/2020 • 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 ...

By The Editors

Online Exclusive • 11/6/2020 • Blog

Are the Narratives Going to Matter?

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

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