Recent Articles
NOV 6, 2025 • Article
A Conversation with Carnegie Ethics Fellow Nicholas Bayer
This interview series profiles members of the CEF cohort. This talk features Nicholas Bayer, senior communications manager for public engagement at Doctors Without Borders.
NOV 5, 2025 • Article
Re-Envisioning Ethics for a New Age: Insights from Global Ethics Day 2025
To mark the 12th Global Ethics Day on October 15, 2025, organizations & individuals across 60 countries reimagined the role of ethics in the workspace, international relations, & everyday life.
OCT 30, 2025 • Journal Online Exclusive
What We've Been Reading
Welcome to our roundup of news and current events related to ethics and international affairs.
OCT 24, 2025 • Article
Ethics on Film: Discussion of "A House of Dynamite"
This review of "A House of Dynamite" discusses the many ethical decisions facing leaders when a nuclear missile is launched at the United States.
OCT 23, 2025 • Journal Online Exclusive
Beware the Boomerang Effect: Why U.S. Strikes on Alleged Drug Boats Pose a Profound Threat to American Freedom
The U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats point toward an intensification of unchecked destructive and coercive power that directly threatens civil and political freedom.
OCT 14, 2025 • Journal Online Exclusive
Global Ethics Day 2025: Ethics Re-envisioned
For the 12th annual Global Ethics Day, the editors of Ethics & International Affairs invited brief essays for an online roundtable on “Ethics Re-envisioned.”
OCT 10, 2025 • Journal Online Exclusive
The Once and Future Global Ethics
Global ethics, like world order, is not the monopoly of any single nation or civilization but a shared creation.
OCT 10, 2025 • Journal Online Exclusive
Ethical Leverage
The critical question is what leverage ethics might have in a world dominated by actors who are not so much political realists as dogmatists.
OCT 10, 2025 • Journal Online Exclusive
Ethics in a Complex World: Why Moral Clarity Is Not Simple
When acknowledging moral complexity, we do not face one simple right answer, but a field of “side-by-side” truths.
OCT 10, 2025 • Journal Online Exclusive
Plugging The Ethical Literacy Gap
What is needed is a real commitment to ethics literacy in the academy and in society as a whole.