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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

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 • 03/17/2020 • Blog

Does Covid-19 Change International Relations?

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 03/11/2020 • Essay

A Luxury Carbon Tax to Address Climate Change and Inequality: Not All Carbon Is Created Equal

Just as there is income inequality, there is also inequality in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A luxury carbon tax is worth considering. It can help ...

By Philippe Benoit

Online Exclusive • 03/6/2020 • Blog

What Do Americans Think ...

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 03/4/2020 • Blog

Super Tuesday and the Clash of Foreign Policy Narratives

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 02/24/2020 • Blog

What We've Been Reading

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