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MAY 3, 2022 Article

Why Democracy vs. Autocracy Misses the Point

Today, the world seems to be laser-focused on the struggle of "democracy vs. autocracy," but what if this ideological debate is missing the point? Columbia ...

APR 11, 2022 Journal Online Exclusive

What We’ve Been Reading

Welcome to our roundup of news and current events related to ethics and international affairs! Here’s some of what we’ve been reading this ...

APR 8, 2022 Article

A New Consensus for a New Era?

As we await the release of the National Security Strategy of the Biden/Harris administration, Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdvev shares an assessment of the birth ...

APR 1, 2022 Article

Money can’t buy you morality

At dephi.allenai.org users are invited to enter descriptions of scenarios, whereupon Delphi – an artificial neural network trained on human moral judgments – responds with ...

APR 1, 2022 Journal

Spring 2022 (36.1)

The editors of Ethics & International Affairs are pleased to present the Spring 2022 issue of the journal! The highlight of this issue is a roundtable organized ...

MAR 28, 2022 Journal Online Exclusive

Ukraine: Critical Issues

MAR 23, 2022 Journal Online Exclusive

Expanding Protection: Global Lessons from the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has wreaked devastation and incalculable suffering, triggering the largest displacement of civilian populations in Europe in eighty years. The EU’...

MAR 21, 2022 Journal Online Exclusive

Russia, Ukraine, and the Demise of Smart Sanctions

There is no question that the invasion of Ukraine is both illegal and immoral, and there is an understandable desire to use every tool in ...

MAR 15, 2022 Journal Online Exclusive

From Anger to Action: Moral Emotions and the Invasion of Ukraine

For many people, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered strong emotions. These emotions—moral emotions—can be helpful guides to moral action.

MAR 10, 2022 Journal Online Exclusive

Solidarity, Not Neutrality, Will Characterize Western Aid to Ukraine

The war in Ukraine is already causing terrible human suffering, the likes of which is all too familiar from recent wars in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, ...