Recent Articles
FEB 21, 2013 • Article
"Economics Has Replaced Ethics" by Laura J. Rediehs
"The biggest ethical challenge facing us today is that we have let economics replace ethics as a guide to life, and in doing so, we ...
FEB 21, 2013 • Article
"Terrorism" by Madueke Michael-Francis Nezie
Terrorism is like a virus. It cannot be said to be bound within certain political states or geographic boundaries. To end terror, extremism and its ...
FEB 21, 2013 • Article
"Exploitive Inequality" by John Dever
"Exploitive inequality is one of the fundamental ethical challenges that faces us today, and it vastly complicates any response to threats to peace, justice, and ...
FEB 21, 2013 • Article
"Saving the World Is Indifferent, Acting for it Isn't" by Ilari Aula
"The greatest ethical challenge facing the planet is to discover how we ordinary people reach and maintain the motivation to change the world. It is ...
FEB 21, 2013 • Article
U.S.-Russian Juvenilia
"The action of the U.S. Congress in passing the Magnitsky Act and the reaction of Russian politicians that followed it remind me of school ...
FEB 14, 2013 • Journal
The Missing Ethics of Mining [Full Text]
There are many mining industries, and each has its own culture, directives, structure, purpose, and pathologies.
FEB 14, 2013 • Journal
Editors' Note [Full Text]
As we approach our second century, the Carnegie Council will remain the home for energetic, rigorous, and creative thinking on the ethics of war. In ...
FEB 14, 2013 • Journal
Thinking Ethically about the Use of Force [Full Text]
BY CIAN O'DRISCOLL What does it mean to think ethically about the use of force? This beguilingly simple question is difficult to address.
FEB 14, 2013 • Journal
Contemporary Just War Thinking: Which Is Worse, to Have Friends or Critics?
The increasingly widespread and energetic engagement with the idea of just war over the last fifty years of thinking on morality and armed conflict—especially ...
FEB 14, 2013 • Journal
Divisions within the Ranks? The Just War Tradition and the Use and Abuse of History
Have the critics of the historical approach to just war theory landed it a knock-out blow, or can it withstand the bricks and bats that ...