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 05/13/2015 Blog

What Thucydides Can Teach Us About Imperial Overreach

Athens’ history reminds us that military power and technological advancement do not guarantee safety or perpetual prosperity.

Online Exclusive 04/25/2015 Blog

Killer Robots: Toward the Loss of Humanity

Robots should not be allowed to make life and death decisions. These should stay firmly within the human purview.

Online Exclusive 04/14/2015 Blog

Ethics and the Iran Talks

Have the participants negotiated in good faith, with an intent to execute faithfully any and all obligations undertaken?

Online Exclusive 03/25/2015 Blog

EIA Podcast: Introducing the Spring 2015 Issue

In this podcast, EIA Senior Editor Zach Dorfman speaks with Carnegie Council Communications Director Madeleine Lynn on the spring 2015 issue of the journal.

Online Exclusive 03/23/2015 Essay

Terminator Ethics: Should We Ban “Killer Robots”?

JEAN-BAPTISTE JEANGÈNE VILMER Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems are the subject of significant debate, and certain NGOs are demanding their preventive prohibition. But these systems ...