Recent Articles
DEC 1, 2019 • Journal
Winter 2019 (33.4)
The editors of Ethics & International Affairs are pleased to present the Winter 2019 issue of the journal! The centerpiece of this issue is a symposium entitled “...
NOV 22, 2019 • Article
Trump is the Symptom, Not the Problem
Astute observers of U.S. foreign policy have been making the case, as we move into the 2020 elections, not to see the interruptions in the ...
NOV 22, 2019 • Journal Online Exclusive
Trump is the Symptom, Not the Problem
Astute observers of U.S. foreign policy have been making the case, as we move into the 2020 elections, not to see the interruptions in the ...
NOV 8, 2019 • Journal Online Exclusive
A Washington Insider Take on the Narratives
Are we in a moment? Ever since Trump was elected I have been trying to sort out whether we have reached a critical turning point ...
NOV 8, 2019 • Article
A Washington Insider Take on the Narratives
Carnegie Council Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev follows up on his recent report on U.S. Global Engagement, "The Search for a New Narrative: Recasting American ...
NOV 7, 2019 • Journal Online Exclusive
Book Symposium: A Discussion on Clifford Bob's Rights as Weapons
The editors of Ethics & International Affairs are pleased to present an online exclusive book symposium featuring responses to Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools ...
NOV 7, 2019 • Journal Online Exclusive
Rights as Weapons: A Rejoinder
It is an honor for Ethics & International Affairs to have chosen my book, Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power, for an online ...
NOV 7, 2019 • Journal Online Exclusive
Rethinking the Politics of Rights
Many international human rights advocates have long assumed that rights are natural, universal, indivisible, and absolute–or, as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights puts ...
NOV 7, 2019 • Journal Online Exclusive
Law, Morality, and Culture in Rights as Weapons
I distinctly remember meeting Clifford Bob three years ago at an International Studies Association conference, and learning about the fascinating ways in which Catalan nationalists ...
NOV 7, 2019 • Journal Online Exclusive
Ends and Means: A Response to Rights as Weapons
In Clifford Bob’s latest book, Rights as Weapons, he argues that rights are not political ends in themselves but are rather an effective means ...