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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

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 12/3/2019 Blog

Philosophy, not "Jeopardy!": Making Foreign Policy Relevant

The Council on Foreign Relations and the National Geographic Society commissioned Gallup to survey Americans about foreign affairs. From the press release announcing the results, ...

Online Exclusive 12/3/2019 Review

Briefly Noted: Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights

A short book review of "Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights"

Online Exclusive 11/22/2019 Blog

Trump is the Symptom, Not the Problem

Astute observers of U.S. foreign policy have been making the case, as we move into the 2020 elections, not to see the interruptions in the ...

Online Exclusive 11/8/2019 Blog

A Washington Insider Take on the Narratives

Are we in a moment?  Ever since Trump was elected I have been trying to sort out whether we have reached a critical turning point ...

Online Exclusive 11/7/2019 Online Essay

Book Symposium: A Discussion on Clifford Bob's Rights as Weapons

The editors of Ethics & International Affairs are pleased to present an online exclusive book symposium featuring responses to Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools ...