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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

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 • 07/11/2025 • Blog

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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

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