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Commemorative medallion for the 2018 North Korea–United States summit issued by the White House Communications Agency. CREDIT: White House Communications Agency via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2018_Trump-Kim_summit_commemorative_coin.jpg">Wikipedia</a>

JUN 18, 2018 • Article

“In Defense of the Trump-Kim Summit”: A Rebuttal

"While the meeting brought the hermetic North Korean regime out of isolation and into the world, the first face-to-face meeting with a sitting U.S. ...

Destroyed house in the south of Sanaa, 2015. CREDIT: <a hfer="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Destroyed_house_in_the_south_of_Sanaa_12-6-2015-4.jpg">Ibrahem Qasim</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en"> CC</a>)

JUN 15, 2018 • Article

YEMEN: An Economic Strategy to Ease the Humanitarian Crisis

As the war in Yemen gets even worse, Dave Harden, former USAID minister counsellor to Yemen, offers a practical, multi-pronged economic strategy to improve household ...

DPRK–USA Singapore Summit,  June 12, 2018. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trump_and_Kim_shaking_hands_in_the_summit_room.jpg">Dan Scavino Jr.</a> via Wikipedia, Public Domain

JUN 14, 2018 • Article

In Defense of the Trump-Kim Summit

"As a long-time Asia watcher, I feel it's important to defend the value of the Singapore summit. The meeting has served to establish rapport between ...

Marine Le Pen and Vladimir Putin,  Moscow, March 2017. CREDIT: <a href="http://www.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/54102/photos/47601">The Russian Presidential Press and Information Office</a>

JUN 13, 2018 • Article

French Political Parties and Russia: The Politics of Power and Influence

"In 2018, what relationship do French political parties have with the Russian Federation, its government, and its political parties, including but not limited to its most ...

JUN 13, 2018 • Journal Online Exclusive

Experts, Ethics and the International System

JUN 13, 2018 • Article

Experts, Ethics and the International System

Carnegie Council senior fellow Nikolas Gvosdev highlights how Americans support continued engagement in the world to harness American power for their own prosperity and security, ...

JUN 8, 2018 • Journal

Borders of Class: Migration and Citizenship in the Capitalist State

In this essay, Lea Ypi defends the relevance of social class in migration debates. In contrast to both defenders and critics of freedom of movement, ...

JUN 8, 2018 • Journal

The Social Cost of International Investment Agreements: The Case of Cigarette Packaging

In this essay, Jennifer L. Tobin argues that international investment agreements impinge on states’ domestic regulatory sovereignty in unforeseen ways, and that these hidden social ...

JUN 8, 2018 • Journal

Extractivism, Gender, and Disease: An Intersectional Approach to Inequalities

In this essay, Cristina Cielo and Lisset Coba use the case of the refinery city of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, to show that the negative impacts of ...

JUN 8, 2018 • Journal

Threats and Coercive Diplomacy: An Ethical Analysis

Threats of armed force are frequently employed in international affairs, yet they have received little ethical scrutiny in their own right. This article addresses that ...