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 01/22/2016 Blog

Cameron, Litvinenko, and Ethical Dilemmas

NICK GVOSDEV A British citizen was murdered by the agents of a foreign power at the probable behest of that country’s leader. What should ...

Online Exclusive 01/12/2016 Blog

Revisiting the Management of Pluralism

The recent migration surge into Europe and the United States raises profound questions of demographic and cultural pluralism.

Online Exclusive 01/6/2016 Blog

Global Governance and Keystone States

Critical challenges—environmental collapse, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and crime, and state collapse—pose existential questions to the continued existence of nation-states.

Online Exclusive 01/5/2016 Blog

The Ethics of Arming Rebels and U.S. Policy—A Clash?

Having encouraged rebels to continue to fight by providing weapons and financial support, do sponsors have the duty to ensure their side can actually win ...

Online Exclusive 12/30/2015 Blog

Duties Owed: Does the International Trump the National Community?

If particular states are asked to assume burdens "for the good of all," what claim to be compensated does that state have in return?