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Online Exclusive • 12/11/2025 • Blog

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Online Exclusive • 11/17/2025 • Online Essay

Department of Violence

Pete Hegseth's speech and the U.S. military strikes on alleged drug boats reveal an American policy of war without rules, violence without constraint.

By Christopher Kutz

Online Exclusive • 10/23/2025 • Online Essay

Beware the Boomerang Effect: Why U.S. Strikes on Alleged Drug Boats Pose a Profound Threat to American Freedom

The U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats point toward an intensification of unchecked destructive and coercive power that directly threatens civil and political freedom.

By Christopher J Finlay

Online Exclusive • 10/30/2018 • Interview

The Alternatives to War: From Sanctions to Nonviolence, with James Pattison

In this interview, James Pattison discusses his book, "The Alternatives to War." His goal is to offer policymakers a pragmatic moral map of the main ...

By James Pattison & John Krzyzaniak

Online Exclusive • 10/24/2018 • Blog

The Importance of Memory: Unreliable, Precarious, and Crucial to Reconciliation

Several recent cases involving the Gambia, Japan and Korea, and Spain highlight the tenuous relationship between memory, history, and state-building.

By Caroline Nguyen

Online Exclusive • 10/2/2018 • Blog

Empty Pews in the Church of Atlanticism

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 09/24/2018 • Blog

The Ethics of the "Doorstep"

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 09/17/2018 • Blog

What We've Been Reading

Welcome to our roundup of monthly news and current events related to ethics and international affairs! Here’s what we’ve been reading in September.

By The Editors

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