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OCT 1, 2017 Journal

Fall 2017 (31.3)

We are pleased to announce the publication of the Fall 2017 issue of Ethics & International Affairs! This issue contains essays by Amartya Sen on the foundations ...

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SEP 27, 2017 Article

The Evolution of Corporate Ethics: A Strategic Case for Profit Maximization through Responsible Behavior

"We are now transitioning from a world where philanthropic social contributions, i.e., Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), influenced behavior, to one where authentic Positive Impact ...

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SEP 26, 2017 Article

Carnegie Council Fellows Respond: Making Ethics Matter, 2017

Carnegie Council has pledged to be a counter-force to the corrosive tone that frequently dominates the news; to focus on the ethical principles at stake; ...

SEP 8, 2017 Journal

Ethics and the Foundation of Global Justice

Can the idea of justice be global in scope? In this essay, Amartya Sen challenges the dominant theories of justice in contemporary political philosophy, asserting ...

SEP 8, 2017 Journal

After Liberal Hegemony: The Advent of a Multiplex World Order

In this essay, Amitav Acharya argues that as the U.S.-dominated world order comes to an end, liberal values and institutions will not disappear, ...

SEP 8, 2017 Journal

Rising Powers, Responsibility, and International Society

This article examines statements made by rising powers Brazil, China, and India in UN Security Council meetings between 2011 and 2016 to identify their perspectives on which ...

SEP 8, 2017 Journal

Climate Engineering and the Playing God Critique

The “playing God” critique charges that humans should not undertake to control nature in ways that overstep the proper scope of human agency. In this ...

SEP 8, 2017 Journal

“Utopian in the Right Sense”: The Responsibility to Protect and the Logical Necessity of Reform

In this article, Aidan Hehir writes that claims made about the success of the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) echo the pejorative conceptions of “utopianism” as ...

SEP 8, 2017 Journal

Poverty Alleviation, Global Justice, and the Real World

For nearly half a century, political theorists have wrestled with the problem of global social justice, producing ever more elaborate and analytically-sophisticated models, but without ...

SEP 8, 2017 Journal

The Ethics of Insurgency

In this review essay, James Turner Johnson considers two recent books on the ethics of insurgency warfare. He draws on the deep history of moral ...