Recent Articles
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
JUN 23, 2017 • Journal Online Exclusive
Afghanistan and the Ethics of Triage
What would a democracy triage approach to Afghanistan look like?
JUN 19, 2017 • Journal Online Exclusive
The Ethics of Saying No
Sometimes the ethical statesperson or policymaker must be prepared to refuse requests for action on the grounds that aid cannot credibly be rendered and/or ...