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JUL 12, 2021 Journal Online Exclusive

Equity and Vaccine Allocation: Beyond Ethics in Prioritization to Equitable Production, Distribution, and Consumption

As COVID-19 surged around the world, it exposed terrible global health inequalities that have hindered our ability to adequately respond to the pandemic. With climate ...

JUL 1, 2021 Journal

Summer 2021 (35.2)

The editors of Ethics & International Affairs are pleased to present the Summer 2021 issue of the journal! The highlight of this issue is a roundtable organized ...

JUN 30, 2021 Article

“AI Governance”: A Black Gen Z-er’s Two Cents on The Conversation

The emerging position is for governments to be at the apex of the governance regime when it comes to AI. This is being signaled by ...

JUN 22, 2021 Journal Online Exclusive

What We've Been Reading

Italian navy rescues asylum seekers in the Mediterranean off the coast of Africa, June 2014. <br>CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/vfutscher/42322119744">Massimo Sestini/Polaris</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/">(CC)</a>.

JUN 20, 2021 Article

The World's Refugee System Needs to be Made Responsible

Today, we are faced with an unfair and ultimately unsustainable refugee system that simultaneously increases human suffering while placing the burden of hosting refugees on ...

President Biden, Vice President Harris, & Secretary Blinken during a virtual Quad Summit with Australia, India, & Japan at the White House, March 2021. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/51102889275/in/photostream/">Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz</a> <a href="https://www.usa.gov/government-works">(U.S. Government Works)</a>

JUN 2, 2021 Article

Revisiting Fractured Globalization in Year 2 of COVID

As we enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Global Engagement Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev refelcts on the erosion of international solidarity. ...

JUN 2, 2021 Article

Narrowing Hearts and Minds: Diagnosing the Global Rise of Illiberal Democracy

From Hungary to India to Brazil to the United States, there is no doubt that illiberalism is on the rise, writes Joel Rosenthal, president of ...

MAY 28, 2021 Journal Online Exclusive

Revisiting Fractured Globalization in Year 2 of Covid

COVID-19 vaccination line in Nagpur, India, May 2021. CREDIT: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:COVID-19_vaccination_queue_01052021.jpg">Ganesh Dhamodkar/Wikimedia</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en">(CC)</a>

MAY 20, 2021 Article

Vaccine Diplomacy versus Vaccine Nationalism: Synthesis or Dissonance?

In response to Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev's blog post on "vaccine diplomacy vs. vaccine nationalism" Samuel Owusu-Antwi, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Ghana, ...

President Biden observes vaccine dosage preparations at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland, January 29, 2021. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/51145157658/">Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz</a> (<a href="https://www.usa.gov/government-works">U.S. Government Works</a>)

MAY 19, 2021 Article

Vaccine Nationalism versus Vaccine Diplomacy

Health security is a fundamental "doorstep" issue in terms of the intersection of domestic and foreign policy. In this blog post, U.S. Global Engagement ...