Online Exclusive • 09/17/2018 • Blog
What We've Been Reading
Welcome to our roundup of monthly news and current events related to ethics and international affairs! Here’s what we’ve been reading in September.
Online Exclusive • 09/12/2018 • Blog
Advising the Next Administration: Finding a New Foreign Policy Approach
Fall 2018 (32.3) • Essay
The Empire of International Legalism
In this essay, Ian Hurd uses the provocative term “empire” to show how the international legal system is also a political system based on the ...
Fall 2018 (32.3) • Essay
Introduction: Alternatives to War
Some of the most controversial foreign policy issues in the first years of the Trump administration have involved alternatives to war. This roundtable seeks to ...
Fall 2018 (32.3) • Essay
The Case for Foreign Electoral Subversion
In this essay Cécile Fabre argues that, under certain conditions and subject to certain constraints, foreign electoral subversion may be justified as a means ...
Fall 2018 (32.3) • Essay
Covert Positive Incentives as an Alternative to War
In this essay, James Pattison argues that covert positive incentives are preferable to both overt incentives and covert force.
Fall 2018 (32.3) • Essay
The Ethics of Countering Digital Propaganda
Corneliu Bjola argues in this essay that the concept of moral authority offers an original framework for responding to digital disinformation campaigns.
Fall 2018 (32.3) • Essay
Backfire: The Dark Side of Nonviolent Resistance
In this essay, Michael L. Gross examines the ethics of provoking backfire in the context of nonviolent resistance.
Fall 2018 (32.3) • Essay
Ending Atrocity Crimes: The False Promise of Fatalism
Some commentators suggest that the best way to minimize harm in atrocity situations is to let the state win as quickly as possible. Could this ...