Online Exclusives

Online Exclusive 10/14/2025 Online Essay

Global Ethics Day 2025: Ethics Re-envisioned

For the 12th annual Global Ethics Day, the editors of Ethics & International Affairs invited brief essays for an online roundtable on “Ethics Re-envisioned.”

Online Exclusive 10/10/2025 Online Essay

Ethics in a Complex World: Why Moral Clarity Is Not Simple

When acknowledging moral complexity, we do not face one simple right answer, but a field of “side-by-side” truths.

Online Exclusive 10/16/2017 Blog

What We’ve Been Reading

Welcome to our roundup of news and current events related to ethics and international affairs! Here’s what we’ve been reading this month.

Online Exclusive 10/3/2017 Interview

EIA Interview with Amitav Acharya on the Multiplex World Order

In this interview, Amitav Acharya and Adam Read-Brown discuss the decline of the liberal world order and the rise of a "multiplex world."

Online Exclusive 08/23/2017 Blog

The Perils of Virtue Signaling in Foreign Policy

Virtue signaling that is detached from achievable outcomes is an ethically-worse option.

Online Exclusive 08/2/2017 Blog

“Victory” In Mosul: Fighting Well and the Horrors of “Winning”

Mosul illustrates how victory at all costs is no victory at all, and why contemporary just war thinkers need to re-conceptualize the idea of victory.

Online Exclusive 07/26/2017 Blog

"Homo Economicus" and the Sanctions Tax

Do sanctions actually work, or do citizens in target countries simply factor the "sanctions tax" into their broader calculations of economic well-being?