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

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.

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.

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 ...