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Online Exclusive • 12/11/2025 • Blog

What We've Been Reading

By The Editors

Online Exclusive • 11/17/2025 • Online Essay

Department of Violence

Pete Hegseth's speech and the U.S. military strikes on alleged drug boats reveal an American policy of war without rules, violence without constraint.

By Christopher Kutz

Online Exclusive • 10/23/2025 • Online Essay

Beware the Boomerang Effect: Why U.S. Strikes on Alleged Drug Boats Pose a Profound Threat to American Freedom

The U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats point toward an intensification of unchecked destructive and coercive power that directly threatens civil and political freedom.

By Christopher J Finlay

Online Exclusive • 06/27/2025 • Online Essay

The Cosmic Precipice: Why Weaponizing Space Hurts Us All

Calls to weaponize space are at minimum careless and at worst actively harmful. We should protect the peaceful use of space as a global commons.

By Ann C. Thresher & Mai'a K. Davis Cross

Online Exclusive • 06/11/2025 • Online Essay

The Impact of Pope Francis: The Pope as a Moral Leader on the Global Stage

The late Pope Francis was widely seen as a significant and influential figure during his time in office.

By James Murphy

Online Exclusive • 04/15/2025 • Blog

EIA Summer 2025 Remote Editorial Internship

Ethics & International Affairs, the journal of the Carnegie Council, seeks a remote intern for the summer.

By The Editors

Online Exclusive • 03/17/2025 • Online Essay

Diplomacy as Stagecraft: Ambush, Performance, and the Ethics of the Trump–Zelenskyy Encounter

This essay examines five core breaches of diplomatic norms during the Trump–Zelenskyy Oval Office meeting.

By Corneliu Bjola

Online Exclusive • 02/7/2025 • Online Essay

Trump, Territory, and Greenland: Mixed Claims for Ownership, Rights, and Control

When we look at what Trump has said about Greenland, we can see that there are different claims about territory.

By Sune Lægaard

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