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AUG 28, 2018 Journal Online Exclusive

What We've Been Reading

The UN report on Myanmar, child refugees in Nauru, and foreign aid for India. Current events in international affairs, paired with EIA and Carnegie Council ...

AUG 17, 2018 Journal Online Exclusive

Upcoming Conferences of Interest 2018-2019

We've put together a list of conferences related to ethics and international relations for the 2018-2019 academic year. We hope you find a conference to ...

Watchkeeper tactical unmanned air vehicle (TUAV). Credit: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/73614187@N03/43077245665/">Think Defence </a>(<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/">CC</a>)

AUG 16, 2018 Article

Inexorable Changes in U.S. Foreign Policy?

Is Trump's presidency a brief aberration after which things will return to normal? That's unlikely, argues Nikolas Gvosdev. In addition to disruptions that have already ...

CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/25218962886">Gage Skidmore</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC</a>)

AUG 14, 2018 Article

The Populist Appeal of American Decline

"Is it possible that, in many circles, the decline of American hegemony is something voters are implicitly cheering?" asks Daniel Graeber of Grand Valley State ...

AUG 13, 2018 Article

Ethics, Russia, and Syria

How can Moscow can support a dictator who has used chemical weapons in his desperate attempts to retain power at all costs? And what does ...

AUG 13, 2018 Journal Online Exclusive

Ethics, Russia and Syria

Can Russia's amoral approach to Syria lead to a stable outcome?

CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dak1b/4970045694/sizes/l">Ryan Anderson</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">CC</a>)

AUG 7, 2018 Article

The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Chemical Weapons

"Chemical weapons have been used in almost every decade since their advent just over a century ago. They are not a specter, like nuclear weapons. ...

AUG 3, 2018 Article

The Vision: Saving the Old or Building the New?

Senior fellow Nikolas Gvosdev unpacks why some scholars seek to save and preserve the U.S. role in the "liberal international order," and why others ...

AUG 2, 2018 Journal Online Exclusive

The Vision: Saving the Old or Building the New?

JUL 31, 2018 Journal Online Exclusive

Migration & Citizenship in the Capitalist State, with Lea Ypi

In this interview Lea Ypi discusses the class-based dimensions often missing from immigration debates.