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Papers

(The median citation count of Ethics & International Affairs is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Determining Vaccine Justice in the Time of COVID-19: A Democratic Perspective	21
Information Fragmentation and Global Governance in Hard Times	18
The International Order of White Sovereignty and the Prospect of Abolition	17
What's Political about Political Refugeehood? A Normative Reappraisal	13
Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Just War, Cian O'Driscoll (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), 192 pp., cloth $94, eBook $92.99.	11
Accountability for the Taking of Human Life with LAWS in War	11
International Development Cooperation Today: A Radical Shift towards a Global Paradigm, Patrick Develtere, Huib Huyse, and Jan Van Ongevalle (Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2021), 317 pp.,	11
Communities and Climate Change: Why Practices and Practitioners Matter	8
Hard(er) Times for Human Rights Advocacy in Global Governance: Ideological Capture and Illiberal Interests	8
Can Technology Democratize Finance?	6
Who Should Represent Future Generations in Climate Planning?	5
Seize the City, Undo the State: The Inception of Russia’s War on Ukraine, by Serhiy Kudelia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2025), 344 pp., cloth $99, paperback $29.95, eBook $20.99.	5
Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence, by Anita R. Gohdes (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), 200 pp., cloth $115, paperback $28.99, eBook	5
Detained Migrant Children, Autonomy, and Positive Duties	5
Making War on the World: How Transnational Violence Reshapes Global Order, Mark Shirk (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022), 256 pp., cloth $140, paperback $35, eBook $34.99.	4
Climate Migration, Moral Dilemmas, and Moral Motivation	3
The Politics and Morality of Transnational Corporate Accountability	3
Contributors	3
Contributors	3
The Ethics of Economic Espionage	3
Who Can Govern from a House on Fire? International Order, State Responsibility, and the Problem of Solar Radiation Modification	3
The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works—and When It Backfires, by Rochelle Terman (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2023), 216 pp., cloth $99, paperback $29.95, eBook	2
The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now, Henry Shue (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2021), 208 pp., cloth $27.95, eBook $27.95.	2
Introduction: Probing the Limits of Ethical Espionage	2
War: A Genealogy of Western Ideas and Practices, Beatrice Heuser (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), 448 pp., cloth $45, eBook $44.99.	2

Global Climate Governance, Short-Termism, and the Vulnerability of Future Generations	2
The Refugee Hospitality Dilemma: Between Universalism and Closure	2
EIA volume 36 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
The End of Peacekeeping: Gender, Race, and the Martial Politics of Intervention, by Marsha Henry (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024), 208 pp., cloth $55, eBook $55.	2
Contributors	2
Climate Migration and the Right to Exclude	2
The Liberal International Order as an Imposition: A Postcolonial Reading	2
Subversion: The Strategic Weaponization of Narratives, Andreas Krieg (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2023), 252 pp., cloth $104.95, paperback $34.95, eBook $34.95.	2
Healing Liberal Democracies: The Role of Restorative Constitutionalism	2
Introduction: Ethics and the War against Ukraine	1
Is Space Expansion the Road to Dystopia?	1
Fighting Machines: Autonomous Weapons and Human Dignity, Dan Saxon (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022), 264 pp., cloth $75, eBook $75.	1
The Hegemon's Tool Kit: US Leadership and the Politics of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime, Rebecca Davis Gibbons (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2022), 240 pp., cloth $49.95, eBook $32.99	1
The Ethics of Special Ops: Raids, Recoveries, Reconnaissance, and Rebels, by Deane-Peter Baker, Roger Herbert, and David Whetham (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 255 pp., $110 clot	1
The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance, by Steven Feldstein (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021), 346 pp., cloth $29.95, eBook $19.99.	1
Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Judgment	1
Contributors	1
Vigilantes beyond Borders: NGOs as Enforcers of International Law, Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni and J. C. Sharman (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2022), 248 pp., cloth $99.95, paperback $2	1
Oil Powers: A History of the U.S.–Saudi Alliance, Victor McFarland (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020), 376 pp., cloth $140, paperback $35, eBook $34.99.	1
The Future of Protection in UN Peace Operations	1
Hope, Pessimism, and the Shape of a Just Climate Future	1
Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United Nations, Abiodun Williams (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024), 208 pp., cloth $100, eBook $99.99.	1
The End Days of the Fourth Eelam War: Sri Lanka's Denialist Challenge to the Laws of War	1
EIA volume 36 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
Ukraine's Challenge to Europe: The EU as an Ethical and Powerful Geopolitical Actor	1
EIA volume 36 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
Order as Resilience-Governance of Sameness and Diversity	1
The Pragmatics of Democratic “Front-Sliding”	1
Voluntary and Involuntary Migrants: On Migration, Safe Third Countries, and the Collective Unfreedom of the Proletariat	1
Introduction	1
Truth Telling, Trust, and Just Intelligence Theory	1
Climate Justice and Informal Representation	1
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Informer: Revisiting the Ethics of Espionage in the Context of Insurgencies and New Wars	1
The Terra Nullius of Intellectual Property	1
Holding International Organizations Accountable: Toward a Right to Justification in Global Governance?	0
Nuclear Ethics Revisited	0
Water for All: Global Solutions for a Changing Climate, by David Sedlak (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2023), 440 pp, cloth $30, eBook $30.	0
Good Rebel Governance: Revolutionary Politics and Western Intervention in Syria, Dipali Mukhopadhyay and Kimberly Howe (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 185 pp., cloth $105.00, pape	0
The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees, by Bradley Hillier-Smith (New York: Routledge, 2025), 286 pp., cloth $170, eBook $48.44.	0
EIA volume 36 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
Rethinking International Order	0
Facial Recognition in War Contexts: Mass Surveillance and Mass Atrocity	0
Making Space for Justice: Social Movements, Collective Imagination, and Political Hope, Michele Moody-Adams (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022), 328 pp., cloth $120, paperback $28, eBook $27.9	0
The Ethics of Choosing Deterrence	0
Ascending Order: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions, Rohan Mukherjee (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 280 pp., cloth $99.99, eBook $99.99.	0
The Diffusion of Global Power and the Decline of Global Governance	0
Reply to Critics	0
Mapping the Lethal Autonomous Weapons Debate: An Introduction	0
Multilateralism and the Global Co-Responsibility of Care in Times of a Pandemic: The Legal Duty to Cooperate	0
Identity and Shared Humanity: Reflections on Amartya Sen's Memoir	0

Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, Samuel Moyn (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021), 416 pp., cloth $30, paperback $20, eBook $14.99.	0
Dehumanization in the Global Migration Crisis, Adrienne de Ruiter (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024), 208 pp., cloth $115, eBook $114.99.	0
Limited Force and the Fight for the Just War Tradition, by Christian Nikolaus Braun, (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2023), 288 pp., cloth $134.95, paperback $44.95.	0
UN Peacekeeping and Impartiality: A Fading Relationship	0
Should German Courts Prosecute Syrian International Crimes? Revisiting the “Dual Foundation” Thesis	0
Beyond Crisis and Emergency: Climate Change as a Political Epic	0
Wars Without End: Competitive Intervention, Escalation Control, and Protracted Conflict, by Noel Anderson (New York: Oxford University Press, 2025), 304 pp., cloth $99, eBook $88.99.	0
Getting Real about Taxes: Offshore Tax Sheltering and Realism's Ethic of Responsibility	0
Introduction: Voluntariness and Migration	0
Returning the War to Russia: Drones and Discrimination in the Defense of Ukraine	0
Contributors	0
Dread: Facing Futureless Futures, David Theo Goldberg (Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 2021), 244 pp., cloth $64.95, paperback $22.95, eBook $18.	0
The Politics of Pedagogy: The Problem of Order in the IR Classroom	0
Debating Worlds: Contested Narratives of Global Modernity and World Order, Daniel Deudney, G. John Ikenberry, and Karoline Postel-Vinay, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), 312 pp., cloth	0
Solidarity in Place? Hope and Despair in Postpandemic Membership	0
Introduction: Democratizing Global Justice	0
The International Peace- and State-Building Intervention in Afghanistan: Distilling Lessons to Be Learned	0
Banning Autonomous Weapons: A Legal and Ethical Mandate	0
The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires, by Kristin Surak (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2023), 336 pp., $35 cloth, $35 eBook.	0
Introduction: The Problem with the Problem of Order	0
EIA volume 36 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
Ukraine, Intervention, and the Post-Liberal Order	0
The Global Liberal Arts Challenge	0
Moral Injury and the Lived Experience of Political Violence	0
Regulating Weapons: An Aristotelian Account	0
How to End a War: Essays on Justice, Peace, and Repair, Graham Parsons and Mark A. Wilson, eds. (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 207 pp., cloth $110, eBook $110.	0
The Ethics of Human Rights Advocacy in the Ukraine War	0
Ukraine, Wagner, and Russia's Convict-Soldiers	0
Technology in Espionage and Counterintelligence: Some Cautionary Lessons from Armed Conflict	0
Immigration and Discrimination: (Un)Welcoming Others, by Sahar Akhtar (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024), 240 pp., cloth $90, eBook $89.99.	0
Contributors	0
The Wealth of Refugees: How Displaced People Can Build Economies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), Alexander Betts, 448 pp., cloth $25.95, eBook $17.99.	0
Knives Out: Evolving Trends in State Interference with UN Peacekeeping Operations	0
Crimes of Dispassion: Autonomous Weapons and the Moral Challenge of Systematic Killing	0
The Myth of “Just” Nuclear Deterrence: Time for a New Strategy to Protect Humanity from Existential Nuclear Risk	0
The Cost of Atrocity: Strategic Implications of Russian Battlefield Misconduct in Ukraine	0
The Tragedy Trap: On the Tragicized Politics of Nuclear Weapons and Armed Drones and the Making of Unaccountability	0
When Can an Ethical-Dilemmas Framing Influence Policy?	0
Migration, Climate Change, and Voluntariness	0
EIA volume 36 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Contributors	0
Just and Unjust Nuclear Deterrence	0
The Origins of Overthrow: How Emotional Frustration Shapes US Regime Change Interventions, Payam Ghalehdar (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), 256 pp., cloth $74, eBook $19.99.	0
World Order from Birmingham Jail	0
Three Pathways to Nonuse Agreement(s) on Solar Geoengineering	0
Sharing Responsibility: The History and Future of Protection from Atrocities, Luke Glanville (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2021), 240 pp., cloth $39.95, eBook $39.95.	0
In the Shadow of Democratic Violence	0
On the Relationship between Global Justice and Global Democracy: A Three-Layered View	0
Moral Injury and Revisionist Just War Theory	0
Beyond Myth Busting: How Engagement with Ethical Dilemmas Can Improve Debates and Policymaking on Migration	0
Cyber Intelligence and Influence: In Defense of “Cyber Manipulation Operations” to Parry Atrocities	0
Contributors	0
The War Is Over but the Moral Pain Continues	0
An Operational Perspective on the Ethics of the Use of Autonomous Weapons	0
Some Lessons from the Post-Soviet Era and the Russo-Ukrainian War for the Study of Nationalism	0
What Future for Peace Operations?	0
Beyond the Law’s Reach? Reply to Critics	0
Introduction: The Continuing Relevance of Nuclear Ethics	0
The Meaning of Terrorism, C. A. J. Coady (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), 240 pp., cloth $40, eBook $39.99.	0
But Is It Good Enough? Jus ad Vim and the Danger of Perpetual War	0
How to Solve Immigration Dilemmas	0
The “Era of the City” as an Emerging Challenge to Liberal Constitutional Democracy	0
Saving the International Justice Regime: Beyond Backlash against International Courts, Courtney Hillebrecht (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 200 pp., cloth $84.99, paperback $29.99	0
Contributors	0
Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints: How Disasters Shape the Dynamics of Armed Conflict, Tobias Ide (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2023), 304 pp., paperback $45, eBook $28.99.	0
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Contested Past, Contested Future: Identity Politics and Liberal Democracy	0
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Ecocide, the Anthropocene, and the International Criminal Court	0
International Law and the Humanization of Warfare	0
On the Scope of Institutions for Future Generations: Defending an Expansive Global Constitutional Convention That Protects against Squandering Generations	0
The Risks and Benefits of National Stories	0
Delta Democracy: Pathways to Incremental Civic Revolution in Egypt and Beyond, Catherine E. Herrold (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), 224 pp., cloth $105, paperback $31.95, eBook $21.99.	0
Contributors	0
Technology and the Civilianization of Warfare	0
Contributors	0
The Institutional Dynamics of Global Governance in Hard Times: Innovation or Decline?	0
Parties, Democracy, and the Ideal of Anti-factionalism: Past Anxieties and Present Challenges	0
Voluntariness and Migration: A Restatement	0

Global Justice in Wildlife Conservation	0
Introduction: Representing Vulnerable Communities and Future Generations in the Face of Climate Change	0
Ambiguous Debts	0
Introduction: Russia's War Against Ukraine	0
What We Owe to Ukrainians: A Moral Perspective on Nuclear Coercion and Military Intervention	0
Introduction: New Directions in the Study of Constitutional Democracy	0
EIA volume 36 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	0
A Positive Legacy? UN Peace Operations and Renewable Energy	0
NGOs as Agents of Global Justice: Cosmopolitan Activism for Political Realists	0
Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests, Agathe Demarais (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022) 304 pp., cloth $30, eBook $29.99.	0
Contributors	0
Producing the Inevitability of Solar Radiation Modification in Climate Politics	0
A Responsibility to Support Civilian Resistance Movements? Broadening the Scope of Nonviolent Atrocity Prevention	0
Delivering on Promises: The Domestic Politics of Compliance in International Courts, Lauren J. Peritz, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022), 336 pp., cloth $105, paperback $35.	0
Citizens’ Complicity in State Action: Exploring the Limits	0
The “Third” United Nations: How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think, Tatiana Carayannis and Thomas G. Weiss (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), 224 pp., cloth $85, eBook $84.99.	0
Which Net Zero? Climate Justice and Net Zero Emissions	0
EIA volume 36 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
“It's Not the Climate, Stupid”: Exploring Nonideal Scenarios for Solar Geoengineering Development	0
What Is It We Disagree about When We Disagree about the Legitimacy of an Institution? A Framework for Analyzing Legitimacy’s Institutional-Context Sensitivity	0
Toward a Balanced Approach: Bridging the Military, Policy, and Technical Communities	0
Under Cover: Substituting Formal IOs during Hard Times	0