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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 09/3/2013 Default

Out Now! Centennial Roundtable on "Nonproliferation in the 21st Century"

FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME! In the journal's fall issue, four leading experts present their perspectives on the contemporary state of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and ...

Online Exclusive 09/2/2013 Blog

On Law, Policy, and (Not) Bombing Syria

The question of whether the US should use its military against Assad is separate from the questions of legal interpretation. The legal question does not ...

Online Exclusive 08/29/2013 Blog

Syria: "To Jaw-Jaw Is Always Better than to War-War"

It has been the mantra of pro-interventionists that, in the face of tens of thousands of deaths in Syria, something must be done. But, while ...

Online Exclusive 08/19/2013 Blog

In Memoriam: Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941-2013)

Celebrating Jean Bethke Elshtain, one of the preeminent political theorists of our time.

Online Exclusive 08/8/2013 Blog

What Is American Exceptionalism?

The institutions, processes, and values that have shaped American history, among them the rise of capitalism, the spread of political democracy, the rise and fall ...