Recent Articles
JAN 24, 2014 • Journal Online Exclusive
Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund and Global Justice: An Exchange
Four experts respond to Chris Armstrong's article "Sovereign Wealth Funds and Global Justice," which appeared in the Winter 2013 issue of the journal.
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 17, 2014 • Article
The Rise of Extremism in a Disunited Europe
A sinister scenario is playing out in Europe: the rise of right-wing populism, and in some cases, extreme far-right forces. Throughout 2013, Carnegie Council's U.S. ...
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 8, 2014 • Article
Secrets and Allies: UK and U.S. Government Reaction to the Snowden Leaks
Is Edward Snowden a whistleblower, a traitor, or a mixture of both? How should he and the media that published his leaks be treated? Journalist ...
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 7, 2014 • Article
The Future of Transatlantic Security Cooperation after 2014
2014 may be a turning point for transatlantic security cooperation. This paper identifies the three most relevant "drivers" in this regard: financial and resource constraints, a ...