Articles & Reports

Recent Articles

CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/freestocks/27841264756/">freestocks.org</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC</a>)

JUL 7, 2016 Article

Buyers' Remorse?

Internationalist and Scot David Speedie reflects on Brexit: what happened, how it happened, and what the ramifications will be for Britain and beyond. Is this ...

JUL 1, 2016 Journal

Summer 2016 (30.2)

The second issue in EIA’s 30th anniversary volume includes an essay by John R. Emery on the humanitarian applications of drones; a roundtable on ...

JUN 24, 2016 Journal Online Exclusive

Brexit and the revenge of the demos

By a narrow majority, British voters have decided their country should leave the European Union (the so-called Brexit). One of the continent's largest economies, military ...

A NATO military exercise in Poland, 2013. CREDIT: <a href="http://bit.ly/260pYrE">NATO/SSgt Ian Houlding GBR Army</a><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"> (CC)</a>

JUN 17, 2016 Article

The July NATO Warsaw Summit: How Will NATO Adapt to a New Security Environment?

Today NATO must protect itself from Russian threats on its Eastern borders and ISIS to the South, plus terrorism and cyber attacks, while also managing ...

CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20151030_Syrians_and_Iraq_refugees_arrive_at_Skala_Sykamias_Lesvos_Greece_2.jpg" target="_blank">Ggia - Wikimedia (CC)</a>. Syrian and Iraqi refugees arrive at Lesvos, Greece, October 2015.

JUN 16, 2016 Article

Integration and the European Migration "Crisis"

How we treat the millions arriving in Europe will affect all our futures, writes migration expert Jenny Phillimore. "We can genuinely welcome people, accept them ...

JUN 16, 2016 Journal Online Exclusive

Why we need better central bank accountability

As pundits debate whether the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates again this summer or fall, we are reminded of just how much of ...

U.S. Army in Baghdad, November 2003. CREDIT: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War#/media/File:UStanks_baghdad_2003.JPEG">Technical Sergeant John L. Houghton, Jr., USAF</a>

JUN 15, 2016 Article

The Progressive's Paradox

Can left-wing ideologies ever co-exist comfortably with military intervention? U.S. foreign policy over the past two decades has failed to align squarely with the ...

JUN 10, 2016 Journal Online Exclusive

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, ...

JUN 10, 2016 Journal

Equal Recognition: The Moral Foundations of Minority Rights

Alan Patten’s Equal Recognition is the most significant systematic attempt at deriving a theory of minority rights from the basic tenets of liberalism since ...

JUN 10, 2016 Journal

Scientists at War: The Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research

In this important new work, historian Sarah Bridger explores the ambivalent role of scientists in U.S. policy debates over national defense issues from the 1950...