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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 • 03/6/2017 • Blog

The Yemen Raid and the Grievability of Lives Lost

Framing the debate about the Yemen raid around whether President Trump is to blame misses other crucial matters that ought to be explored, particularly about ...

By John R. Emery

Online Exclusive • 03/5/2017 • Blog

The Great Divide: Democracy's Future

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 02/21/2017 • Blog

Democracy Promotion and a Trump Administration

By Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Online Exclusive • 02/16/2017 • Essay

30th Anniversary Volume Editors' Picks

Ethics & International Affairs is pleased to present a special collection of “Editors’ Picks” from its 30th Anniversary Volume. Access the selections here.

By The Editors

Online Exclusive • 02/16/2017 • 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 February.

By The Editors

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