New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 40, no. 1, Spring 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Essay Series: EIA Volume 40
• David Schlosberg, Revisiting Capabilities and Climate Justice: How Climate Turbulence Undermines Capabilities, and How to Design Just Adaptation in Response
• Special Section: The Ethics and Experience of War
• Cian O’Driscoll & Sian Troath, Introduction: Ethics, Experience, and War
• Cian O’Driscoll, Just War Theory Today: Experience Required?
• Thomas Gregory, Craig Jones, Helen M. Kinsella, Nisha Shah, & Lina Aburas, Enumerating Civilian Harm: Experience, Ethics, and Erasure
• Jessica Wolfendale, Collateral Voices: Civilian Perspectives, Moral Injury, and the Ethics of War
• Sian Troath, he Intellectual Inheritance of Machine Learning and the Ethics of Algorithmic War
• Beth Rowan, Soldiers of the Law: How Military Lawyers Made Law Useful to War

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 39, no. 4, Winter 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Essay
• Mathias Risse, Leadership on the Line: Gaslighting, Adaptive Leadership, and the Battle for the Soul of Democracy
• Feature
• Wendy H. Wong & David A. Lake, Governing Artificial Intelligence: Designing Professional Structures for the Predictive Age
• Filip J. Scherf, Responsible Peacemakers: Toward a Reframed Ethics of HUMINT
• Jamal Barnes, The Dark Side of International Cooperation: Indifference and the Psychosocial Dynamics of Cooperative Deterrence
• Review Essay
• Larissa Fast, Unfinished Critique and the Duality of Humanitarian Digital Technologies

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 39, no. 3, Fall 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Book Symposium: Beyond the Law’s Reach?
• Michael Blake, In the Shadow of Democratic Violence
• Yuna Blajer de la Garza, Ambiguous Debts
• Alex Zakaras, Citizens’ Complicity in State Action: Exploring the Limits
• Shmuel Nili, Beyond the Law’s Reach? Reply to Critics
• Feature
• Tyra Lennie, Detained Migrant Children, Autonomy, and Positive Duties

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 39, no. 2, Summer 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Roundtable: Global Governance in Hard Times
• Benjamin Faude & John Karlsrud, The Institutional Dynamics of Global Governance in Hard Times: Innovation or Decline?
• Yoram Z. Haftel & Stephanie C. Hofmann, Under Cover: Substituting Formal IOs during Hard Times
• Matthew D. Stephen, The Diffusion of Global Power and the Decline of Global Governance
• Julia C. Morse, Information Fragmentation and Global Governance in Hard Times
• Nina Reiners, Hard(er) Times for Human Rights Advocacy in Global Governance: Ideological Capture and Illiberal Interests
• Review Essay
• Abraham Singer, The Politics and Morality of Transnational Corporate Accountability

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 39, no. 1, Spring 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Essay
• Benjamin Zyla, The International Peace- and State-Building Intervention in Afghanistan: Distilling Lessons to Be Learned
• Roundtable: Ethical Dilemmas and Migration Policymaking
• Lukas Schmid, Martin Ruhs, Rainer Bauböck, & Julia Mourão Permoser, Beyond Myth Busting: How Engagement with Ethical Dilemmas Can Improve Debates and Policymaking on Migration
• Michael Blake, Climate Migration, Moral Dilemmas, and Moral Motivation
• Dietrich Thränhardt, The Refugee Hospitality Dilemma: Between Universalism and Closure
• Elizabeth Collett, When Can an Ethical-Dilemmas Framing Influence Policy?
• Mollie Gerver, How to Solve Immigration Dilemmas
• Review Essay
• Shannon Brandt Ford, Truth Telling, Trust, and Just Intelligence Theory

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 38, no. 4, Winter 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Roundtable: The Future of UN Peacekeeping
• Jennifer Welsh & Marie-Joëlle Zahar, What Future for Peace Operations?
• Emily Paddon Rhoads, The Future of Protection in UN Peace Operations
• John Karlsrud, UN Peacekeeping and Impartiality: A Fading Relationship
• Victoria K. Holt, A Positive Legacy? UN Peace Operations and Renewable Energy
• Dirk Druet, Knives Out: Evolving Trends in State Interference with UN Peacekeeping Operations
• Feature
• Silje A. Langvatn, What Is It We Disagree about When We Disagree about the Legitimacy of an Institution? A Framework for Analyzing Legitimacy’s Institutional-Context Sensitivity
• Review Essay
• Kok-Chor Tan, Global Justice in Wildlife Conservation

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 38, no. 3, Fall 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Roundtable: Solar Geoengineering: Ethics, Governance, and International Politics
• Danielle N. Young, Who Can Govern from a House on Fire? International Order, State Responsibility, and the Problem of Solar Radiation Modification
• Duncan McLaren, “It's Not the Climate, Stupid”: Exploring Nonideal Scenarios for Solar Geoengineering Development
• Stacy D. VanDeveer, Frank Biermann, Rakhyun E. Kim, Carol Bardi, & Aarti Gupta, Three Pathways to Nonuse Agreement(s) on Solar Geoengineering
• Jeroen Oomen, Producing the Inevitability of Solar Radiation Modification in Climate Politics
• Roundtable: Russia's War against Ukraine: The Limits of Ethical Theorizing
• Hilary Appel & Rachel A. Epstein, Introduction: Russia's War Against Ukraine
• Milada Anna Vachudova & Nadiia Koval, Ukraine's Challenge to Europe: The EU as an Ethical and Powerful Geopolitical Actor
• Oxana Shevel, Some Lessons from the Post-Soviet Era and the Russo-Ukrainian War for the Study of Nationalism
• Charli Carpenter, The Ethics of Human Rights Advocacy in the Ukraine War
• Feature
• Dan Boscov-Ellen, Climate Migration and the Right to Exclude

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 38, no. 2, Summer 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Roundtable: The Problem with International Order
• Ian Hurd, Introduction: The Problem with the Problem of Order
• Trine Flockhart, Order as Resilience-Governance of Sameness and Diversity
• Ian Hurd, World Order from Birmingham Jail
• Lina Benabdallah, The Liberal International Order as an Imposition: A Postcolonial Reading
• Jennifer Mitzen, The Politics of Pedagogy: The Problem of Order in the IR Classroom
• Owen R. Brown, The International Order of White Sovereignty and the Prospect of Abolition
• Ayşe Zarakol, Rethinking International Order
• Features
• Benoît Pelopidas & Neil C. Renic, The Tragedy Trap: On the Tragicized Politics of Nuclear Weapons and Armed Drones and the Making of Unaccountability

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 38, no. 1, Spring 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Roundtable: Ethics and the War against Ukraine
• Christian Nikolaus Braun, Introduction: Ethics and the War against Ukraine
• Neil Renic, The Cost of Atrocity: Strategic Implications of Russian Battlefield Misconduct in Ukraine
• James Pattison, Ukraine, Wagner, and Russia's Convict-Soldiers
• Sophia Anastazievsky, What We Owe to Ukrainians: A Moral Perspective on Nuclear Coercion and Military Intervention
• Christian Enemark, Returning the War to Russia: Drones and Discrimination in the Defense of Ukraine
• Lonneke Peperkamp, Technology and the Civilianization of Warfare
• Features
• Eglantine Staunton & Cecilia Jacob, A Responsibility to Support Civilian Resistance Movements? Broadening the Scope of Nonviolent Atrocity Prevention
• J. S. Maloy, Beyond Crisis and Emergency: Climate Change as a Political Epic

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 37, no. 4, Winter 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Essays
• Mitt Regan, International Law and the Humanization of Warfare
• Nathan Pippenger, Contested Past, Contested Future: Identity Politics and Liberal Democracy
• Special Section: Voluntariness and Migration
• Eszter Kollar & François Boucher, Introduction: Voluntariness and Migration
• Valeria Ottonelli & Tiziana Torresi, Voluntariness and Migration: A Restatement
• Michael Blake, Voluntary and Involuntary Migrants: On Migration, Safe Third Countries, and the Collective Unfreedom of the Proletariat
• Christine Straehle, Migration, Climate Change, and Voluntariness
• Review Essay
• Tony Milligan, Is Space Expansion the Road to Dystopia?

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 37, no. 3, Fall 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Roundtable: Global Governance and Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems
• Josephine Jackson, Mapping the Lethal Autonomous Weapons Debate: An Introduction
• David A. Deptula, An Operational Perspective on the Ethics of the Use of Autonomous Weapons
• Arun Seraphin & Wilson Miles, Toward a Balanced Approach: Bridging the Military, Policy, and Technical Communities
• Mary Ellen O'Connell, Banning Autonomous Weapons: A Legal and Ethical Mandate
• Esther D. Reed, Accountability for the Taking of Human Life with LAWS in War
• Anthony F. Lang, Jr., Regulating Weapons: An Aristotelian Account
• Feature
• Neil Renic & Elke Schwarz, Crimes of Dispassion: Autonomous Weapons and the Moral Challenge of Systematic Killing
• Review Essay
• Dominic Lenzi, Hope, Pessimism, and the Shape of a Just Climate Future

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 37, no. 2, Summer 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Book Symposium: The Ethics of Espionage and Counterintelligence
• Juan Espindola, Introduction: Probing the Limits of Ethical Espionage
• Ross W. Bellaby, The Ethics of Economic Espionage
• Ron Dudai, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Informer: Revisiting the Ethics of Espionage in the Context of Insurgencies and New Wars
• Alex Leveringhaus, Technology in Espionage and Counterintelligence: Some Cautionary Lessons from Armed Conflict
• Rhiannon Neilsen, Cyber Intelligence and Influence: In Defense of “Cyber Manipulation Operations” to Parry Atrocities
• Juan Espindola, Facial Recognition in War Contexts: Mass Surveillance and Mass Atrocity
• Cécile Fabre, Reply to Critics
• Feature
• Thana C. de Campos-Rudinsky, Multilateralism and the Global Co-Responsibility of Care in Times of a Pandemic: The Legal Duty to Cooperate
• Review Essay
• Zeynep Pamuk, Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Judgment

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 37, no. 1, Spring 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Symposium: Nuclear Ethics Revisited
• The Editors, Introduction: The Continuing Relevance of Nuclear Ethics
• Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Nuclear Ethics Revisited
• Scott D. Sagan, Just and Unjust Nuclear Deterrence
• Sharon K. Weiner, The Ethics of Choosing Deterrence
• Joan Rohlfing, The Myth of “Just” Nuclear Deterrence: Time for a New Strategy to Protect Humanity from Existential Nuclear Risk
• Feature
• Adam Branch & Liana Minkova, Ecocide, the Anthropocene, and the International Criminal Court
• Review Essay
• Nick Bernards, Can Technology Democratize Finance?

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 36, no. 4, Winter 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Roundtable: Healing and Reimagining Constitutional (Liberal) Democracy
• David Ragazzoni, Introduction: New Directions in the Study of Constitutional Democracy
• Rogers M. Smith, The Risks and Benefits of National Stories
• Rosalind Dixon & David Landau, Healing Liberal Democracies: The Role of Restorative Constitutionalism
• Tom Ginsburg & Aziz Z. Huq, The Pragmatics of Democratic “Front-Sliding”
• Ran Hirschl, The “Era of the City” as an Emerging Challenge to Liberal Constitutional Democracy
• David Ragazzoni, Parties, Democracy, and the Ideal of Anti-factionalism: Past Anxieties and Present Challenges
• Ayelet Shachar, Solidarity in Place? Hope and Despair in Postpandemic Membership
• Feature
• Chris Armstrong & Duncan McLaren, Which Net Zero? Climate Justice and Net Zero Emissions
• Review Essay
• Christian Nikolaus Braun, But Is It Good Enough? Jus ad Vim and the Danger of Perpetual War

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 36, no. 3, Fall 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Essay
• Jonathan Becker, The Global Liberal Arts Challenge
• Book Symposium: Democratizing Global Justice
• Ana Tanasoca & John S. Dryzek, Introduction: Democratizing Global Justice
• Terry Macdonald & Kate Macdonald, NGOs as Agents of Global Justice: Cosmopolitan Activism for Political Realists
• Eva Erman, On the Relationship between Global Justice and Global Democracy: A Three-Layered View
• Ana Tanasoca & John S. Dryzek, Determining Vaccine Justice in the Time of COVID-19: A Democratic Perspective
• Feature
• Felix Bender, What's Political about Political Refugeehood? A Normative Reappraisal
• Review Essay
• James Pattison, Ukraine, Intervention, and the Post-Liberal Order

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 36, no. 2, Summer 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Essay
• Eva Hilberg, The Terra Nullius of Intellectual Property
• Roundtable: Vulnerable Communities, Future Generations, and Political Representation in Climate Policy and Practice
• Morten Fibieger Byskov & Keith Hyams, Introduction: Representing Vulnerable Communities and Future Generations in the Face of Climate Change
• Simon Caney, Global Climate Governance, Short-Termism, and the Vulnerability of Future Generations
• Stephen M. Gardiner, On the Scope of Institutions for Future Generations: Defending an Expansive Global Constitutional Convention That Protects against Squandering Generations
• Colin Hickey, Climate Justice and Informal Representation
• Morten Fibieger Byskov & Keith Hyams, Who Should Represent Future Generations in Climate Planning?
• Marco Grix & Krushil Watene, Communities and Climate Change: Why Practices and Practitioners Matter
• Feature
• Gordon Arlen & Carlo Burelli, Getting Real about Taxes: Offshore Tax Sheltering and Realism's Ethic of Responsibility
• Review Essay
• Theresa Reinold, Holding International Organizations Accountable: Toward a Right to Justification in Global Governance?

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 36, no. 1, Spring 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Roundtable: Moral Injury, Trauma, and War
• Jesse Kirkpatrick & Daniel Rothenberg, Introduction
• David Wood, The War Is Over but the Moral Pain Continues
• Daniel Rothenberg, Moral Injury and the Lived Experience of Political Violence
• Jesse Kirkpatrick, Moral Injury and Revisionist Just War Theory
• Feature
• Yuna Han, Should German Courts Prosecute Syrian International Crimes? Revisiting the “Dual Foundation” Thesis
• Megan Price, The End Days of the Fourth Eelam War: Sri Lanka's Denialist Challenge to the Laws of War
• Review Essay
• Deen Chatterjee, Identity and Shared Humanity: Reflections on Amartya Sen's Memoir

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 35, no. 4, Winter 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Essay
• Hendrik Schopmans & Jelena Cupać, Engines of Patriarchy: Ethical Artificial Intelligence in Times of Illiberal Backlash Politics
• Book Symposium: Territorial Sovereignty
• Michael Blake, Unwanted Compatriots: Alienation, Migration, and Political Autonomy
• Adom Getachew, The State's Imperial Shadows
• Christopher Heath Wellman, Do Legitimate States Have a Right to Do Wrong?
• Anna Stilz, Reply to My Critics
• Feature
• Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Allen Buchanan, Shuk Ying Chan, Cécile Fabre, Daniel Halliday, R. J. Leland, Florencia Luna, Matthew S. McCoy, Ole F. Norheim, G. Owen Schaefer, Kok-Chor Tan, & Christopher Heath Wellman, On the Ethics of Vaccine Nationalism: The Case for the Fair Priority for Residents Framework
• Review Essay
• Mollie Gerver, Helping Refugees Where They Are

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 35, no. 3, Fall 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Essay
• Hendrik Schopmans & Jelena Cupać, Engines of Patriarchy: Ethical Artificial Intelligence in Times of Illiberal Backlash Politics
• Book Symposium: Ethics, Security, and the War-Machine
• Peter Balint, Introduction: Is a Military Really Worth Having?
• Neta C. Crawford, Democracy and the Preparation and Conduct of War
• Cheyney Ryan, Nation-States, Empires, Wars, Hostilities
• C. A. J. Coady, War Crimes and the Asymmetry Myth
• Cécile Fabre, War, Duties to Protect, and Military Abolitionism
• Ned Dobos, Are States under a Prospective Duty to Create and Maintain Militaries?
• Christopher J. Finlay, Deconstructing Nonviolence and the War-Machine: Unarmed: Coups, Nonviolent Power, and Armed Resistance
• David Rodin, Justice Between Wars
• Feature
• Philipp Gisbertz-Astolf, Reduced Legal Equality of Combatants in War
• Review Essay
• Andreas Papamichail, The Global Politics of Health Security before, during, and after COVID-19

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 35, no. 2, Summer 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Roundtable: The Responsibility to Protect in a Changing World Order
• Michael Ignatieff, The Responsibility to Protect in a Changing World Order: Twenty Years since Its Inception
• Adrian Gallagher & Nicholas J. Wheeler, Trust or Perish? The Responsibility to Protect and Use of Force in a Changing World Order
• Cristina G. Stefan, The Responsibility to Protect: Locating Norm Entrepreneurship
• Luke Glanville & James Pattison, Where to Protect? Prioritization and the Responsibility to Protect
• Jennifer M. Welsh, The Security Council's Role in Fulfilling the Responsibility to Protect
• Features
• Daniele Amoroso & Guglielmo Tamburrini, Toward a Normative Model of Meaningful Human Control over Weapons Systems
• Patricia Goff, Inclusive Trade: Justice, Innovation, or More of the Same?
• Review Essay
• Andrea C. Simonelli, Climate Displacement and the Legal Gymnastics of Justice: Is It All Political?