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AUG 23, 2017 Article

Foreword to Volume "Just War Thinkers: From Cicero to the 21st Century"

This book tells the story of the just war through its main protagonists. Each chapter gives insight into the life and times of the most ...

AUG 23, 2017 Journal Online Exclusive

The Perils of Virtue Signaling in Foreign Policy

Virtue signaling that is detached from achievable outcomes is an ethically-worse option.

A community poll worker in Cabrican, Guatemala records the names of participants in the referendum and hands out ballots, October 2010. CREDIT: Katherine Fultz

AUG 9, 2017 Article

Community Referenda on Mining in Guatemala

Katherine Fultz spent a total of three years in Guatemala studying environmental and cultural politics. "By using referenda to make a statement about mining," she ...

AUG 2, 2017 Journal Online Exclusive

“Victory” In Mosul: Fighting Well and the Horrors of “Winning”

Mosul illustrates how victory at all costs is no victory at all, and why contemporary just war thinkers need to re-conceptualize the idea of victory.

JUL 26, 2017 Journal Online Exclusive

"Homo Economicus" and the Sanctions Tax

Do sanctions actually work, or do citizens in target countries simply factor the "sanctions tax" into their broader calculations of economic well-being?

JUL 24, 2017 Journal Online Exclusive

The Costs of Solar Geoengineering

While Harvard’s research program could help us to better understand solar geoengineering, they should be careful not to oversell their program at the cost ...

CREDIT: <a href="https://pixabay.com/en/drugs-cocaine-heroin-powder-1889390/">lechenie-narkomanii</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode">CC</a>)

JUL 17, 2017 Article

Recalibrating the U.S. Strategy for the War on Drugs

With Mexico in mind, it's time the U.S. recalibrated its strategy for the decades-long War on Drugs. "A policy that addresses the violent threat ...

JUL 12, 2017 Journal Online Exclusive

What We’ve Been Reading

Welcome to our roundup of news and current events related to ethics and international affairs! Here’s what we’ve been reading this month.

JUL 1, 2017 Journal

Summer 2017 (31.2)

We are pleased to announce the publication of the Summer 2017 issue of Ethics & International Affairs! This issue contains a special section on legitimate authority, war, ...

The timeless image of 'Earthrise' seen from the moon by U.S. astronauts in the 1960s and '70s. But would potentially risky geoengineering be a step too far in humanity's technical and scientific progression? CREDIT: <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1249.html">NASA</a>

JUN 28, 2017 Article

Humanitarians Hope for ‘Risk Management Framework’ on Geoengineering – a Carnegie Discussion

"The potential impacts of geoengineering remain so uncertain as to be quite unknown; what seems clear is that in a geoengineered future there would be ...