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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

By Hossein Dabbagh & Patrick Hassan

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.

By Drew Thompson

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.

By Ben Hazelton

Online Exclusive • 09/14/2012 • Blog

Carnegie Council Annual International Essay Contest

Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs announces its fourth annual International Essay Contest. This competition is open to both teachers and students anywhere in ...

By The Editors

Online Exclusive • 09/14/2012 • Blog

Carnegie Council Trans-Pacific Student Contest

By The Editors

Online Exclusive • 07/6/2012 • Blog

Kony and US Foreign Policy

By James Pattison

Online Exclusive • 06/6/2012 • Blog

“Responsibility to Protect” on Trial—or Assad?

The backlash against R2P in some quarters of the Western media continues. Now, with the situation in Syria worsening, critics have focused on the ...

By Alex J. Bellamy

Online Exclusive • 05/31/2012 • Blog

The War on Somali Piracy

By James Pattison

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