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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 • 09/17/2020 • Blog

Drones and War: The Impact of Advancement in Military Technology on Just War Theory and the International Law of Armed Conflict

Since the first use of drones as lethal tools of war, certain pundits, politicians, and ethicists have argued for holding the use of drones to ...

By Langdon Ogburn

Online Exclusive • 09/10/2020 • Blog

Ecological Dimension of Foreign Policy

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 09/2/2020 • Blog

The Ethics of Non-Cooperation: Covid Vaccine Questions

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 08/24/2020 • Blog

Hard Choices on China

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 08/14/2020 • Blog

Senator Kamala Harris and Foreign Policy Narratives

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

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