Online Exclusive • 10/3/2016 • Essay
The Ethics of Autonomous Weapon Systems (aka Killer Robots)
Ethics & International Affairs is pleased to present a collection of recent work on the ethics of autonomous weapon systems (AWS).
Fall 2016 (30.3) • Journal Issue
Fall 2016 (30.3)
The third issue in EIA’s 30th anniversary volume includes essays by Nicholas Chan on the bottom-up architecture of the Paris climate change agreement, Jens ...
Online Exclusive • 09/28/2016 • Interview
EIA Interview with Karin Aggestam on Sweden's Feminist Foreign Policy
In this interview, Professor Karin Aggestam of Lund University discusses Sweden's feminist foreign policy, both in theory and in practice. Aggestam's essay on this topic, ...
Online Exclusive • 09/27/2016 • Essay
Autonomous Weapon Diplomacy: The Geneva Debates
The third and most recent informal experts' meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) took place in April 2016 at the UN Convention on Certain Conventional ...
Fall 2016 (30.3) • Response
Robots as “Evil Means”? A Rejoinder to Jenkins and Purves
The notion that some means of waging war are mala in se is a confronting one. Surely, any weapon can be used for good or ...
Fall 2016 (30.3) • Response
Robots and Respect: A Response to Robert Sparrow
Robert Sparrow recently argued in this journal that several initially plausible arguments in favor of the deployment of autonomous weapon systems (AWS) in warfare are ...
Fall 2016 (30.3) • Review Essay
Ethics and Inequality: A Strategic and Practical View
Deng Xiaoping once said, “Let some get rich first, the others will follow.” This is Angus Deaton’s basic view in The Great Escape. Deaton, ...
Fall 2016 (30.3) • Feature
Self-Interest and the Distant Vulnerable
What interests do states have in assisting and protecting vulnerable populations beyond their borders? Today, confronted as we are with civil wars, mass atrocities, and ...
Fall 2016 (30.3) • Feature
Should International Courts Use Public Reason?
Is public reason an appropriate ideal for international courts? Since the early 1990s various political philosophers and legal scholars have argued that supreme courts should “...
Fall 2016 (30.3) • Essay
Climate Contributions and the Paris Agreement: Fairness and Equity in a Bottom-Up Architecture
Ethical questions of fairness, responsibility, and burden-sharing have always been central to the international politics of climate change and efforts to construct an effective intergovernmental ...