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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 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 ...

Online Exclusive 11/7/2019 Online Essay

Rights as Weapons: A Rejoinder

It is an honor for Ethics & International Affairs to have chosen my book, Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power, for an online ...

Online Exclusive 11/7/2019 Online Essay

Rethinking the Politics of Rights

Many international human rights advocates have long assumed that rights are natural, universal, indivisible, and absolute–or, as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights puts ...

Online Exclusive 11/7/2019 Online Essay

Law, Morality, and Culture in Rights as Weapons

I distinctly remember meeting Clifford Bob three years ago at an International Studies Association conference, and learning about the fascinating ways in which Catalan nationalists ...