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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 01/9/2014 Blog

Balancing Private and Public Morality

Reading Annick Cojean’s Gaddafi’s Harem: The Story of a Young Woman And The Abuses of Power in Libya, which chronicles the experiences of ...

Online Exclusive 12/5/2013 Blog

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We want to hear from you! Ethics & International Affairs is conducting a short survey to get a sense of how the journal is used within ...

Online Exclusive 11/26/2013 Blog

An Ethical Nuclear Posture for the 21st Century?

What is the appropriate role (and size) of a U.S. nuclear force that would make both strategic and ethical sense? The U.S. still ...

Online Exclusive 10/15/2013 Blog

After the Catastrophe: Ian Buruma on 1945

In his recent visit to Carnegie Council, Ian Buruma gave a fascinating talk about the postwar world, which originated during what he calls "year zero"...

Online Exclusive 10/8/2013 Blog

The UN’s Unprecedented Gamble in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The Forward Intervention Brigade represents an unprecedented use of the Security Council’s Chapter VII peacekeeping mandate, and risks undermining peacekeeping’s core tenets of ...