Recent Articles
JAN 6, 2022 • Article
One Year After the January 6 Insurrection, Democracy Needs a Rallying Cry
On the first anniversary of the January 6 insurrection, groups across society are increasingly worried about the state of democracy. But as the pressure on democracy ...
DEC 23, 2021 • Article
Ethics and Fairness in AI: Who Makes the Rules
In a September 2021 talk at Sparks! The Serendipity Forum at CERN, Anja Kaspersen, senior fellow for Carnegie Council’s Artificial Intelligence & Equality Initiative (AIEI), discusses ...
DEC 16, 2021 • Journal Online Exclusive
EIA Winter 2021 Issue--Out Now!
The editors of Ethics & International Affairs are pleased to present the Winter 2021 issue of the journal! The issue looks at the territorial states-system, the ethics ...
DEC 16, 2021 • Journal
A Magna Carta for Children? Rethinking Children’s Rights
Children’s rights present a unique challenge. On the one hand, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the most widely ...
DEC 16, 2021 • Journal
New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and Its Alternatives
Written for a general audience, Alex de Waal’s New Pandemics, Old Politics explores why in the twenty-first century responses to infectious disease outbreaks and ...
DEC 16, 2021 • Journal
Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
The constitution of political community in the aftermath of colonialism was the foremost challenge for postcolonial leaders who had been shaped by anti-colonial struggles premised ...
DEC 16, 2021 • Journal
Helping Refugees Where They Are
Some policies are not politically feasible. In the context of refugees, many claim it is not politically feasible to start admitting significantly more refugees into ...
DEC 16, 2021 • Journal
Briefly Noted: Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal,
Postliberal Politics discusses a variety of ideas regarding systemic changes primarily to Western political systems that would allow these societies to move past traditional notions ...
DEC 10, 2021 • 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 ...
DEC 9, 2021 • Journal Online Exclusive
Secretary-General selection process and the P5 stranglehold on power
On September 10, 2021, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 75-325. Behind the resolution, which concerns the selection process for the Secretary-General, were two months of ...