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Online Exclusive 11/17/2025 Online Essay

Department of Violence

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 10/14/2025 Online Essay

Global Ethics Day 2025: Ethics Re-envisioned

For the 12th annual Global Ethics Day, the editors of Ethics & International Affairs invited brief essays for an online roundtable on “Ethics Re-envisioned.”

Online Exclusive 12/18/2008 Essay

Michael Goodhart Replies to Eva Erman

Erman's reaction shows that she misses the main point at issue. She insists that democracy means "rule by the people"; I define it as a ...

Online Exclusive 12/18/2008 Essay

On Goodhart's Global Democracy (A Critique)

In this critique of Michael Goodhart's "Human Rights and Global Democracy," Eva Erman argues that Goodhart has reconceptualized democracy and therefore does not offer a ...

Online Exclusive 04/28/2008 Essay

Torture Can Be Self-Defense: A Critique of Whitley Kaufman

In this online response, Uwe Steinhoff argues that Whitley Kaufman's denial that torturing the "ticking bomb terrorist" can be justifiable is incorrect.

Online Exclusive 04/28/2008 Essay

The Distributive Justice Theory of Self-Defense (Response to Whitley Kaufman)

Segev argues for a theory of distributive justice and considers its implications. This theory includes a principle of responsibility that was endorsed by others within ...

Online Exclusive 04/28/2008 Essay

On U.S. Plans to Deploy ABM Systems in Europe and Possible Compromise Solutions

Petr Romashkin and Pavel Zolotarev argue that the current state of Russian-U.S. relations in the area of missile defense cannot be evaluated without taking ...