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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 • 01/18/2019 • Blog

Rischian Transactionalism

Transactionalism in U.S. foreign policy has a new proponent: James E. Risch, incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 01/10/2019 • Essay

Japan’s Withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission: A Disaster that Could Have Been Avoided

Former IWC chair Cristian Maquieira writes that Japan's decision was a long time coming, but it didn't have to be this way.

By Cristian Maquieira

Online Exclusive • 12/26/2018 • Blog

Ethics and the Syria Withdrawal

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 12/8/2018 • Blog

Warren and Haley: Post-Trump Foreign Policies?

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 12/7/2018 • Default

EIA Winter 2018 issue--Out Now!

We are pleased to announce the publication of the Winter 2018 issue of Ethics & International Affairs. Access the Table of Contents here.

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