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

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 09/9/2019 Default

EIA Fall 2019 issue--Out Now!

We are pleased to announce the publication of the Fall 2019 issue of Ethics & International Affairs. This issue looks at targeted sanctions, (un)civil disobedience, civialan ...

Online Exclusive 09/6/2019 Blog

Transactionalism and U.S. Foreign Aid

One of the critical questions we have been grappling with since Donald Trump's election is the extent to which a transactional calculus would come to ...

Online Exclusive 09/3/2019 Blog

What is the Status Quo for the Climate?

I have been reading an interesting book by Sarah Parcak called Archaeology from Space: How The Future Shapes our Past.

Online Exclusive 08/21/2019 Blog

The Ethics of Trade with China and Authoritarian Upgrading

In an earlier posting, I discussed some of the ethical frameworks for assessing the trade war with China, themes that were expanded upon in a ...

Online Exclusive 08/19/2019 Blog

Beyond Trump