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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 “...

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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 ...

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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 ...