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DEC 1, 2020 Journal

Winter 2020 (34.4)

The editors of Ethics & International Affairs are pleased to present the Winter 2020 issue of the journal! The highlight of this issue is a roundtable organized ...

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken &  Vice President Joe Biden in Honolulu, July 2016. CREDIT: <a href="https://dod.defense.gov/OIR/gallery/igphoto/2001574265/">Staff Sgt. Chris Hubenthal/U.S.Department of Defense</a>/<a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/">Public Domain</a>

NOV 23, 2020 Article

Competing Ethics in the Biden Administration?

In this blog post responding to Thomas Wright's recent article in "The Atlantic," Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev outlines the three different "camps" vying for influence ...

NOV 23, 2020 Journal Online Exclusive

Competing Ethics in the Biden Administration?

NOV 10, 2020 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 ...

Washington, DC, November 7, 2020. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/taedc/50578004282/">Ted Eytan</a> <a href=https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/>(CC)</a>

NOV 9, 2020 Article

Are the Narratives Going to Matter?

Building on recent episodes of "The Doorstep" podcast, host Nikolas Gvosdev reflects on competing narratives and policy preferences in light of Vice President Joe Biden's ...

NOV 6, 2020 Journal Online Exclusive

Are the Narratives Going to Matter?

NOV 3, 2020 Journal Online Exclusive

Ecological Genocide in the Amazon: Raphael Lemkin and the Destruction of Human Groups

For most people, the word “genocide” likely evokes mental images of concentration camps, killing fields, and mass graves. Deforestation, no matter how severe, would seem ...

Senator Robert Menendez in 2013. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/worldeconomicforum/8814153077">World Economic Forum/Benedikt von Loebell</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">(CC)</a>.

OCT 21, 2020 Article

Senator Menendez & the Narratives

Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev discusses a recent report on Trump's foreign policy from the Democratic members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led by Senator ...

OCT 21, 2020 Journal Online Exclusive

Senator Menendez and the Narratives

USS <i>Fitzgerald</i> in the East China Sea, November 2015. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnavy/22736066120/in/photostream/">U.S. Navy/Patrick Dionne<a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">(CC)</a>.

OCT 7, 2020 Article

Is Great Power Competition Ethical?

Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev discusses ethics in the context of great power competition. What can we learn from history about the role that ethics play ...