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Online Exclusive 04/25/2015 Blog

Killer Robots: Toward the Loss of Humanity

Robots should not be allowed to make life and death decisions. These should stay firmly within the human purview.

Spring 2015 (29.1) Essay

Ebola, Liberia, and the "Cult of Bankable Projects"

SHEFA SIEGEL Instead of addressing core issues of state failure, development aid continues pushing narrowly focused agendas that have little meaning in places where institutions ...

Online Exclusive 04/14/2015 Blog

Ethics and the Iran Talks

Have the participants negotiated in good faith, with an intent to execute faithfully any and all obligations undertaken?

Spring 2015 (29.1) Journal Issue

Spring 2015 (29.1)

This issue includes an essay by Shefa Siegel on “Liberia, Ebola, and the ‘Cult of Bankable Projects’”; a symposium on imagining a “Drone Accountability Regime,” ...

Online Exclusive 03/25/2015 Blog

EIA Podcast: Introducing the Spring 2015 Issue

In this podcast, EIA Senior Editor Zach Dorfman speaks with Carnegie Council Communications Director Madeleine Lynn on the spring 2015 issue of the journal.

Online Exclusive 03/23/2015 Essay

Terminator Ethics: Should We Ban “Killer Robots”?

JEAN-BAPTISTE JEANGÈNE VILMER Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems are the subject of significant debate, and certain NGOs are demanding their preventive prohibition. But these systems ...

Online Exclusive 03/11/2015 Blog

The Ethics of the Senate Letter and Iran Talks

In the United States, executive agreements—that is, arrangements made with other states that are not treaties subject to Senate ratification—exist in a gray ...

Spring 2015 (29.1) Feature

Toward a Drone Accountability Regime

The key principle of a Drone Accountability Regime should be transparency, and its central agent should be an Ombudsperson with broad authority to investigate situations ...

Spring 2015 (29.1) Review

Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America’s Post-9/11 Wars by Neta C. Crawford

For Crawford, we ought not to regard instances in which civilians are mistakenly targeted or instances in which more civilians are killed collaterally than had ...

Spring 2015 (29.1) Essay

The Informal Regulation of Drones and the Formal Legal Regulation of War

How does the proposed drone accountability regime relate to existing international treaty and customary law governing the use of force, including the use of lethal ...