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JAN 22, 2014 Journal Online Exclusive

The 2014 Carnegie Council Trans-Pacific Student Contest

Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs announces its second Trans-Pacific Student Contest, a pioneering exercise in US-Asia collaboration.

JAN 22, 2014 Podcast

Ethics Matter: Top Risks and Ethical Decisions 2014 with Ian Bremmer

So what should we look out for in 2014? "The economic risks are receding. The geopolitical risks are becoming more important," says political risk guru Ian ...

JAN 16, 2014 Journal Online Exclusive

Assessing the Ethics of Intervention

How should we assess the ethics of intervention? The policymaker has two initial approaches, the "morality of intentions" versus the "morality of results."

JAN 9, 2014 Journal Online Exclusive

Balancing Private and Public Morality

Reading Annick Cojean’s Gaddafi’s Harem: The Story of a Young Woman And The Abuses of Power in Libya, which chronicles the experiences of ...

JAN 7, 2014 Journal

Special Responsibilities: Global Problems and American Power by Mlada Bukovansky, Ian Clark, Robyn Eckersley, Richard Price, Christian Reus-Smit, and Nicholas Wheeler

Claims for "special responsibilities" are sometimes made to rally domestic support for some costly international action, or to exempt a great power from norms that ...

JAN 7, 2014 Journal

On Complicity and Compromise by Chiara Lepora and Robert E. Goodin

Humanitarian action is regularly accused of prolonging wars or colluding with vicious regimes. But the profession has been strangely tardy in developing its operational ethics.

JAN 7, 2014 Journal

Recovering International Relations: The Promise of Sustainable Critique by Daniel J. Levine

Daniel Levine’s goal is to “recover” IR’s original vocation, or calling, and to reinvigorate it via the idea of “sustainable critique”—a project ...

JAN 6, 2014 Journal

The Touch of Midas: Money, Markets, and Morality

Money, like God, injects infinity into human desires. To love it is to embark on a journey without end. Three new books testify to money’...

JAN 6, 2014 Journal

On Rights to Land, Expulsions, and Corrective Justice

This article examines the nature of the wrongs that are inflicted on individuals and groups who have been expelled from the land that they previously ...

JAN 6, 2014 Journal

Sovereign Wealth Funds and Global Justice

Insofar as ethical debates have begun to touch on how the assets of sovereign wealth funds should be distributed, they have tended to ask how ...