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Online Exclusive 02/27/2026 Blog

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Online Exclusive 11/17/2025 Online Essay

Department of Violence

Pete Hegseth's speech and the U.S. military strikes on alleged drug boats reveal an American policy of war without rules, violence without constraint.

Online Exclusive 10/23/2025 Online Essay

Beware the Boomerang Effect: Why U.S. Strikes on Alleged Drug Boats Pose a Profound Threat to American Freedom

The U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats point toward an intensification of unchecked destructive and coercive power that directly threatens civil and political freedom.

Online Exclusive 06/27/2014 Blog

Cataclysm: David Stevenson on World War I as Political Tragedy

For Stevenson, we must conclude that–although there were mitigating circumstances–Germany was centrally involved in the escalation of the crisis in July and August 1914.

Online Exclusive 06/24/2014 Blog

What Metrics for Assessing the Ethics of Intervention?

Despite the predictions of the optimists in both the Bush and Obama administrations, U.S. interventions to remove undeniably brutal dictators from power have not ...

Online Exclusive 05/31/2014 Blog

Syria and the Saratoga Moment

What are the ethical considerations in continuing to aid the anti-Assad opposition in Syria?

Online Exclusive 05/29/2014 Blog

"Fairness and its Opposite": International Student Photo Contest

Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs announces its second annual International Student Photography Contest.

Online Exclusive 05/21/2014 Podcast

The Long Shadow: David Reynolds on World War I

For Reynolds, many of our contemporary problems have roots in what George Kennan called the "great seminal catastrophe" of the twentieth century: World War I.