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Online Exclusive 12/11/2025 Blog

What We've Been Reading

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.

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.

Online Exclusive 02/23/2018 Blog

Outsourcing Thinking on Engagement?

The American public is increasingly deferential to the military on U.S. global engagement, shifting the ethical burden of responsibility.

Online Exclusive 02/19/2018 Blog

Munich Security Conference: Mixed Messages on American Values, Engagement

The executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government are sending mixed messages on upholding the liberal world order. What will other states do ...

Online Exclusive 02/9/2018 Blog

American Engagement: When It Comes to Foreign Policy, Does America Deserve Trump?

Online Exclusive 01/31/2018 Blog

ISA 2018 Roundtable: Climate Change and the Power to Act

The editors of Ethics & International Affairs are pleased to announce that the journal has organized a roundtable for the 2018 International Studies Association (ISA) annual convention ...

Online Exclusive 01/31/2018 Blog

State of the Union: The Era of the Liberal Leviathan Is Over

In his first State of the Union address, Donald Trump used the rostrum to again break with some of the precepts which have defined the ...