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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 • 03/17/2025 • Online Essay

Diplomacy as Stagecraft: Ambush, Performance, and the Ethics of the Trump–Zelenskyy Encounter

This essay examines five core breaches of diplomatic norms during the Trump–Zelenskyy Oval Office meeting.

By Corneliu Bjola

Online Exclusive • 02/7/2025 • Online Essay

Trump, Territory, and Greenland: Mixed Claims for Ownership, Rights, and Control

When we look at what Trump has said about Greenland, we can see that there are different claims about territory.

By Sune Lægaard

Online Exclusive • 02/3/2025 • Online Essay

Should States Use Social Media to Warn Civilians in Armed Conflict?

The cardinal principle of the modern laws of war is the duty to distinguish between civilians and combatants when attacking the enemy.

By Henning Lahmann

Online Exclusive • 11/21/2024 • Essay

Decolonization at the UNGA: Algeria and Puerto Rico

Weeks after comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage” at Donald Trump’s October 2024 rally, a majority of the island’s ...

By Eliana Johnson

Online Exclusive • 11/20/2024 • Blog

EIA Spring 2025 Remote Editorial Internship

Ethics & International Affairs, the journal of the Carnegie Council, seeks a remote intern for the fall.

By The Editors

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