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Fall 2017 (31.3) Review

Disease Diplomacy: International Norms and Global Health Security by Sara E. Davies, Adam Kamradt-Scott, and Simon Rushton

In Disease Diplomacy, the authors provide an empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated account of the reform of the International Health Regulations. The book also makes ...

Fall 2017 (31.3) Review

When Norms Collide: Local Responses to Activism against Female Genital Mutilation and Early Marriage by Karisa Cloward

In this book, Karissa Cloward employs a mixed-methods study to examine the ways that local communities react to transnational activism and international norm promotion. In ...

Fall 2017 (31.3) Review

Power Shift: On the New Global Order by Richard Falk

Richard Falk’s most recent book is full of interesting insights and displays an impressive degree of rhetorical power. Collectively, these essays demonstrate, rather convincingly, ...

Fall 2017 (31.3) Review

Briefly Noted

A brief book review of Susan P. Murphy's Responsibility in an Interconnected World: International Assistance, Duty, and Action.

Online Exclusive 08/23/2017 Blog

The Perils of Virtue Signaling in Foreign Policy

Virtue signaling that is detached from achievable outcomes is an ethically-worse option.

Online Exclusive 08/2/2017 Blog

“Victory” In Mosul: Fighting Well and the Horrors of “Winning”

Mosul illustrates how victory at all costs is no victory at all, and why contemporary just war thinkers need to re-conceptualize the idea of victory.

Online Exclusive 07/26/2017 Blog

"Homo Economicus" and the Sanctions Tax

Do sanctions actually work, or do citizens in target countries simply factor the "sanctions tax" into their broader calculations of economic well-being?

Online Exclusive 07/24/2017 Blog

The Costs of Solar Geoengineering

While Harvard’s research program could help us to better understand solar geoengineering, they should be careful not to oversell their program at the cost ...

Online Exclusive 07/12/2017 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.

Summer 2017 (31.2) Journal Issue

Summer 2017 (31.2)

We are pleased to announce the publication of the Summer 2017 issue of Ethics & International Affairs! This issue contains a special section on legitimate authority, war, ...