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Online Exclusives

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 • 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

Online Exclusive • 09/12/2018 • Blog

Advising the Next Administration: Finding a New Foreign Policy Approach

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

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