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SEP 9, 2019 Journal Online Exclusive

EIA Fall 2019 issue--Out Now!

We are pleased to announce the publication of the Fall 2019 issue of Ethics & International Affairs. This issue looks at targeted sanctions, (un)civil disobedience, civialan ...

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Introduction

It is hard to imagine a threat to international security or a tension within U.S. foreign policy that does not involve the imposition of ...

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China’s Global Identity: Considering the Responsibilities of Great Power

That China is a global power today is indisputable. What kind of global power China wishes to be and is becoming, however, are open-ended questions, ...

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Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination

Contemporary global justice theorists have largely neglected the transnational aspirations of the post-1945 decolonization movement, instead seeing it as solely a movement for countries to ...

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Negotiating Peace: A Guide to the Practice, Politics, and Law of International Mediation

Sir Winston Churchill is often credited with the phrase “To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war.” Over the last twenty years, the desire to be ...

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Injustice: Political Theory for the Real World

In Injustice: Political Theory for the Real World, Michael Goodhart claims that the dominant paradigm's quest for “spotless” justice blinds scholars to the lived injustices ...

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Humanitarian Action and Ethics

This edited volume from Ayesha Ahmad and James Smith offers an expansive tour across the difficult landscape of ethical conundrums in humanitarian action, traversing issues ...

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Briefly Noted

In his latest book, Marcus Schulzke analyzes the ethical traditions of three national militaries—the U.S. Army, the British Army and Royal Marine Commandos, ...

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A Human Rights Approach to Conflict Resolution

The role of human rights abuses in the causes, dynamics, and consequences of conflict illustrate the importance of a human rights approach to conflict resolution: ...

President Trump at the 2017 UN General Assembly. CREDIT: <a href=https://www.flickr.com/photos/un_photo/37501289212/>UN Photo/Ariana Lindquist (CC)</a>.

SEP 9, 2019 Article

Transactionalism and U.S. Foreign Aid

A draft of a new presidential directive on American foreign aid suggests that transactionalism will shift from being a rhetorical device to an actual defining ...