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JUL 1, 2018 Journal

Summer 2018 (32.2)

We are pleased to present the Summer 2018 issue of Ethics & International Affairs. This issue contains essays by Lea Ypi on the importance of social class ...

JUN 22, 2018 Journal Online Exclusive

A "Values-Free" Trans-Atlantic Relationship?

A shift to more transactional modes of doing business--a "values-free" approach--is a risky way to sustain support for existing trans-Atlantic policies and institutions.

JUN 22, 2018 Article

A "Values-Free" Trans-Atlantic Relationship?

Can an enduring and effective trans-Atlantic relationship be constructed and maintained without reference to commonly-shared values, in other words, can there be a "values-free" partnership?

Child at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, 2014. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CBP_Processing_Unaccompanied_Children_(15020197208).jpg"> Eddie Perez</a> , U.S. Customs & Border Protection, public domain

JUN 20, 2018 Article

The Zero Tolerance Migration Policy: Two Moral Objections

"The ends do not always justify the means, especially when children are involved." It's important to lay out all the ways Trump's policy of separating ...

JUN 20, 2018 Journal Online Exclusive

The Zero Tolerance Migration Policy: Two Moral Objections

In this post Drew Thompson explains two moral objections to the Trump administration's current policy of separating migrant children from their parents.

Commemorative medallion for the 2018 North Korea–United States summit issued by the White House Communications Agency. CREDIT: White House Communications Agency via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2018_Trump-Kim_summit_commemorative_coin.jpg">Wikipedia</a>

JUN 18, 2018 Article

“In Defense of the Trump-Kim Summit”: A Rebuttal

"While the meeting brought the hermetic North Korean regime out of isolation and into the world, the first face-to-face meeting with a sitting U.S. ...

Destroyed house in the south of Sanaa, 2015. CREDIT: <a hfer="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Destroyed_house_in_the_south_of_Sanaa_12-6-2015-4.jpg">Ibrahem Qasim</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en"> CC</a>)

JUN 15, 2018 Article

YEMEN: An Economic Strategy to Ease the Humanitarian Crisis

As the war in Yemen gets even worse, Dave Harden, former USAID minister counsellor to Yemen, offers a practical, multi-pronged economic strategy to improve household ...

DPRK–USA Singapore Summit,  June 12, 2018. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trump_and_Kim_shaking_hands_in_the_summit_room.jpg">Dan Scavino Jr.</a> via Wikipedia, Public Domain

JUN 14, 2018 Article

In Defense of the Trump-Kim Summit

"As a long-time Asia watcher, I feel it's important to defend the value of the Singapore summit. The meeting has served to establish rapport between ...

Marine Le Pen and Vladimir Putin,  Moscow, March 2017. CREDIT: <a href="http://www.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/54102/photos/47601">The Russian Presidential Press and Information Office</a>

JUN 13, 2018 Article

French Political Parties and Russia: The Politics of Power and Influence

"In 2018, what relationship do French political parties have with the Russian Federation, its government, and its political parties, including but not limited to its most ...

JUN 13, 2018 Journal Online Exclusive

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