Online Exclusive • 04/6/2011 • Essay
A Response to "Precommitment Regimes for Intervention"
Buchanan and Keohane argue that institutional reform is required to reverse the inertia that has too often constituted the international response to intra-state crises. Their ...
Spring 2011 (25.1) • Feature
Globalizing Responsibility for Climate Change
In distributing the costs associated with climate change, most scholars have focused exclusively upon mitigation burdens. Few consider the distribution of adaptation costs, which concern ...
Spring 2011 (25.1) • Feature
Precommitment Regimes for Intervention: Supplementing the Security Council
We consider two different types of alternatives to the Security Council for authorizing military action across borders: a democratic coalition and a precommitment regime, by ...
Spring 2011 (25.1) • Essay
Clean Trade in Natural Resources
The resource curse impedes core interests of importing states, while the policies of these states drive the resource curse. These policies violate importing states' existing ...
Spring 2011 (25.1) • Essay
Face Reality? After You!--A Call for Leadership on Climate Change
Humanity's so far leaderless approach to dealing with rapidly accelerating climate change embodies a profoundly tragic catch-22 that has, among other twists and contradictions, transmuted ...
Spring 2011 (25.1) • Essay
Middle-Ground Ethics: Can One Be Politically Realistic Without Being a Political Realist? [Full Text]
Thinking about international affairs has oscillated between idealism and realism throughout the modern period. Moralists continue to search for a way to combine what is ...
Spring 2011 (25.1) • Internal
From the Editor [Full Text]
Twenty-five years ago the Carnegie Council published the first issue of Ethics & International Affairs with the aim of addressing head-on the intersection of these two ...
Online Exclusive • 02/23/2011 • Interview
Interview with John Tessitore, Editor of Ethics & International Affairs
Julia Taylor Kennedy interviews editor John Tessitore on the occasion of the Carnegie Council's upcoming 25th-anniversary edition of its Ethics & International Affairs journal.