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Ethiopia, during a drought in 2016. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/unicefethiopia/24714637829">UNICEF Ethiopia</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/">(CC)</a>

SEP 20, 2019 Article

A Case for Giving Climate Migrants Protected Legal Status

With climate change already affecting vast regions of the planet, Bard College's Brian Mateo makes the case for expanding legal protections for refugees to include ...

U.S. servicemembers load humanitarian relief supplies for victims of Cyclone Nargis. Yokota Air Base, Japan, 2008. CREDIT: <a href=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:080512-F-1590C-553_Loading_relief_supplies_at_U-Tapao.jpg>U.S. Air Force (CC)</a>.

SEP 20, 2019 Article

Need for a New Consensus

Foreign policy experts are having difficulty linking the negative implications of a shift towards trasactionalism for U.S. foreign aid to voters. This begs the ...

SEP 20, 2019 Journal Online Exclusive

Need for a New Consensus

Josh Rogin follows up on the move to institutionalize transactionalism as the guiding principle of U.S. foreign aid.

Khurais Oil Processing Facility in Saudi Arabia, February 2017. CREDIT: <a href=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Khurais_Oil_Processing_Facility,_Saudi_Arabia_by_Planet_Labs.jpg>Planet Labs, Inc. (CC)</a>.

SEP 18, 2019 Article

Candidates, Calculus, and the Iran Crisis

In choosing whether and how to respond to the attack on Saudi Arabian oil refineries, what is the calculus for determining action? Should the United ...

SEP 18, 2019 Journal Online Exclusive

Candidates, Calculus and the Iran Crisis

I had the distinct honor and pleasure of speaking with the members of the Greater Des Moines Committee on Foreign Relations this past Tuesday around ...

Protest against U.S. military attacks in Syria, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2017. CREDIT: <a href=https://www.flickr.com/photos/fibonacciblue/33878190156/in/album-72157682265455706/>Fibonacci Blue (CC)</a>.

SEP 17, 2019 Article

The Narrative IS Changing . . .

The narrative about America's role in the world is changing--and more evidence is accumulating that suggests that no matter how the 2020 presidential and congressional elections ...

SEP 12, 2019 Journal Online Exclusive

The Narrative IS Changing ...

One of the criticisms that the U.S. Global Engagement project has received over the past year is the assessment that we are assigning too ...

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 ...

SEP 9, 2019 Journal

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 ...

SEP 9, 2019 Journal

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, ...