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 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?

Online Exclusive 07/24/2017 Blog

The Costs of Solar Geoengineering

While Harvard’s research program could help us to better understand solar geoengineering, they should be careful not to oversell their program at the cost ...