Online Exclusive • 11/7/2019 • Online Essay
Law, Morality, and Culture in Rights as Weapons
I distinctly remember meeting Clifford Bob three years ago at an International Studies Association conference, and learning about the fascinating ways in which Catalan nationalists ...
Online Exclusive • 11/7/2019 • Online Essay
Ends and Means: A Response to Rights as Weapons
In Clifford Bob’s latest book, Rights as Weapons, he argues that rights are not political ends in themselves but are rather an effective means ...
Online Exclusive • 11/7/2019 • Online Essay
Sources of Firepower for Weaponized Rights
“Rights” are often portrayed as things that are universal, apolitical, inherent, or natural, and as ends in themselves. But what if “rights” are mere rhetoric, ...
Online Exclusive • 11/7/2019 • Online Essay
Ruling by Rights: Rule Making and Embedded Normativity
Clifford Bob’s Rights as Weapons offers a gripping description of the manifold ways people use rights-claims to attain strategic goals. In addition to using ...
Online Exclusive • 11/7/2019 • Online Essay
A Conversation about the Politics of Rights within Rights as Weapons
Clifford Bob’s book Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power builds a powerful argument that rights can be weapons of political conflict. ...
Online Exclusive • 11/7/2019 • Blog
What We've Been Reading
Welcome to our roundup of news and current events related to ethics and international affairs! Here’s what we’ve been reading this month.
Online Exclusive • 10/30/2019 • Blog
Crafting Narratives and the 2020 Elections
The Project on U.S. Global Engagement has released its report, The Search for a New Narrative: Recasting American Involvement in the International System.
Online Exclusive • 10/17/2019 • Blog
A Russian Take on the Kurds and U.S. Foreign Policy
The Russian defense news site Voennoye Obozrenie has a very interesting and caustic take on the U.S. withdrawal from northern Syria.
Fall 2019 (33.3) • Journal Issue
Fall 2019 (33.3)
The editors of Ethics & International Affairs are pleased to present the Fall 2019 issue of the journal! This issue features a roundtable on “Economic Sanctions and ...
Online Exclusive • 09/20/2019 • Blog
Need for a New Consensus
Josh Rogin follows up on the move to institutionalize transactionalism as the guiding principle of U.S. foreign aid.