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Online Exclusive 03/17/2025 Online Essay

Diplomacy as Stagecraft: Ambush, Performance, and the Ethics of the Trump–Zelenskyy Encounter

Online Exclusive 02/7/2025 Online Essay

Trump, Territory, and Greenland: Mixed Claims for Ownership, Rights, and Control

When we look at what Trump has said about Greenland, we can see that there are different claims about territory.

Online Exclusive 02/3/2025 Online Essay

Should States Use Social Media to Warn Civilians in Armed Conflict?

The cardinal principle of the modern laws of war is the duty to distinguish between civilians and combatants when attacking the enemy.

Online Exclusive 06/10/2016 Blog

Pacta Sunt Servanda, Treaties, and the U.S. Election

How would each presidential candidate approach what is one of the bedrock ethical principles of how the United States conducts foreign policy: pacta sunt servanda, ...

Online Exclusive 05/20/2016 Blog

Trans-Pacific Partnership and Trump

Listening to Marketplace's discussion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, two things jumped out at me: the first is the assessment that, after all the heavy lifting ...

Online Exclusive 04/28/2016 Blog

The Ethics of Trump's Foreign Policy vs. Obama's Long Game

Much of the reaction to Donald Trump's foreign policy speech, beyond the campaign-related questions of whether this address makes him look more presidential or electable, ...

Online Exclusive 04/1/2016 Blog

Communitarian Approach? New China-U.S. Agreements

Do the agreements reached at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington between Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping represent an evolution towards the communitarian vision ...

Online Exclusive 03/15/2016 Blog

Upcoming Conferences of Interest: 2016

We have compiled a list of upcoming conferences related to the fields of ethics and international affairs. We hope you find something that interests you!