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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

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 07/12/2016 Blog

Decisions, Perspectives, and Ethics

Over the summer, as we refresh the curriculum at the Naval War College, it has given me an opportunity to ponder the ethical implications of ...

Online Exclusive 06/24/2016 Blog

Brexit and the revenge of the demos

By a narrow majority, British voters have decided their country should leave the European Union (the so-called Brexit). One of the continent's largest economies, military ...

Online Exclusive 06/16/2016 Blog

Why we need better central bank accountability

As pundits debate whether the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates again this summer or fall, we are reminded of just how much of ...

Online Exclusive 06/10/2016 Blog

Pacta Sunt Servanda, Treaties, and the U.S. Election

How would each presidential candidate approach what is one of the bedrock ethical principles of how the United States conducts foreign policy: pacta sunt servanda, ...

Online Exclusive 05/20/2016 Blog

Trans-Pacific Partnership and Trump

Listening to Marketplace's discussion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, two things jumped out at me: the first is the assessment that, after all the heavy lifting ...