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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 • 03/22/2019 • Blog

America in Decline?

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 03/14/2019 • Blog

The Sicilian Expedition and the Dilemma of Interventionism

The Peloponnesian War has lessons for U.S. foreign policy beyond the Thucydides Trap.

By Billy Pickett

Online Exclusive • 03/8/2019 • Review

Briefly Noted: Burying Jihadis: Bodies Between State, Territory, and Identity

A short book review of "Burying Jihadis: Bodies Between State, Territory, and Identity"

By The Editors

Online Exclusive • 03/6/2019 • Blog

Climate Change and Competing Ethical Visions

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 03/6/2019 • Blog

What We've Been Reading

The NSA's Freedom Act Program, the INF Treaty, and Venezuela. Here's what we've been reading.

By The Editors

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