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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 • 08/28/2018 • Blog

What We've Been Reading

The UN report on Myanmar, child refugees in Nauru, and foreign aid for India. Current events in international affairs, paired with EIA and Carnegie Council ...

By The Editors

Online Exclusive • 08/17/2018 • Blog

Upcoming Conferences of Interest 2018-2019

We've put together a list of conferences related to ethics and international relations for the 2018-2019 academic year. We hope you find a conference to ...

By The Editors

Online Exclusive • 08/13/2018 • Blog

Ethics, Russia and Syria

Can Russia's amoral approach to Syria lead to a stable outcome?

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 08/2/2018 • Blog

The Vision: Saving the Old or Building the New?

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 07/31/2018 • Interview

Migration & Citizenship in the Capitalist State, with Lea Ypi

In this interview Lea Ypi discusses the class-based dimensions often missing from immigration debates.

By Lea Ypi & Adam Read-Brown

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