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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 • 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.

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

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 ...

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 08/19/2019 • Blog

Beyond Trump

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 08/19/2019 • Blog

Ethical Considerations in a Trade War with China

Are there ethical considerations that need to be factored in as part of assessing the merits of a "trade war" with the People's Republic of ...

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 07/30/2019 • Blog

Democratic Candidates and Foreign Policy

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

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