Acharya, Amitav. "The Myth of the ‘Civilization State’: Rising Powers and the Cultural Challenge to World Order." Ethics & International Affairs 34, no. 2 (2020): 139-56. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0892679420000192. [Considers whether the the rise of civilization-states is inevitable in light of the greater prominence of China, India, Turkey, and Russia.]
Attanasio, David L. "The Problem of State Territorial Obligations." Journal of Ethics (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-020-09335-1. [Argues that extant theories of territorial rights can’t explain why states have territorial obligations to (e.g.) provide minimum protection to people living there.]
Barnett, Michael. "A Problem from Washington: Samantha Power Enters the Foreign Policy Bureaucracy." Ethics & International Affairs 34, no. 2 (2020): 241-54. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0892679420000313. [Argues that there are tensions between Samantha Power’s Education of an Idealist and A Problem from Hell, and that this poses a problem for the possibility of ethics in foreign policy.]
Beebee, Helen and Alex Kaiserman. "Causal Contribution in War." Journal of Applied Philosophy 37, no. 3 (2020): 364-77. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12341. [A challenge for the view that civilians on an unjust side of a conflict have small causal contributions (thus immunizing them to defensive liability) is that the size of an agent’s causal contribution depends on factors extrinsic to their action and has counterintuitive implications.]
Bero, Stephen. "Holding Responsible and Taking Responsibility." Law and Philosophy 39, no. 3 (2020): 263-96. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10982-019-09371-5. [Argues that taking responsibility is morally distinct from holding responsible and is morally significant in its own right.]
Brunstetter, Daniel R. "Introduction: The Ethical, Legal, and Strategic Implications of Limited Strikes." Ethics & International Affairs 34, no. 2 (2020): 157-59. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0892679420000222. [Introduces a roundtable on limited strikes (military strikes that fall short of war).]
Brunstetter, Daniel R. "Wading Knee-Deep into the Rubicon: Escalation and the Morality of Limited Strikes." Ethics & International Affairs 34, no. 2 (2020): 161-73. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0892679420000210. [Defends an ethics of limited strikes—jus ad vim—that is supposed to be distinct from traditional just war theory.]
Burkhardt, Tim. "Epicureanism and the Wrongness of Killing." Journal of Ethics 24 (2020): 177-92. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-019-09317-y. [Argues that Epicureans have a reason not to kill people because Epicureanism might be false.]
Burri, Susanne. "Why Moral Philosophy Needs Real Cases: The Redirection of V-Weapons during the Second World War." Journal of Political Philosophy 28, no. 2 (2020): 247-69. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopp.12200. [Discusses the ethics of the British government’s use of spies to re-direct German V-weapons, and discusses this debate in light of the trolley problem.]
Burri, Susanne. "Morally Permissible Risk Imposition and Liability to Defensive Harm." Law and Philosophy 39, no. 4 (2020): 381-408. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10982-019-09368-0. [Argues that a luck egalitarian commitment to holding people responsible cannot, by itself, ground liability to defensive harm, and that what grounds an agent’s liability is her culpability, not responsibility, for threatening unjustified harm.]
Cebula, Adam. "Introduction: The Legacy and Consequences of World War I." Journal of Military Ethics 19, no. 2 (2020): 118-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2020.1796311. [Introduces a special article series on the ethical significance of World War I, drawn from a 2018 conference by the International Centre for Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue at the University of Warsaw.]
Cebula, Adam. "Fighting a Just War in the Midst of an Unreasonable International Strife: World War I and the Collapse of the Central European System of the Triple Imperial Dominion." Journal of Military Ethics 19, no. 2 (2020): 135-50. https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2020.1796309. [Discusses the jus ad bellum implications of Polish Legions’ participation in the First World War, when Poland was not an independent state.]
Christie, Lars. "Causation and Liability to Defensive Harm." Journal of Applied Philosophy 37, no. 3 (2020): 378-92. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12377. [Provides counter-examples to the view that causal responsibility for an unjust threat is a necessary condition for liability to defensive harm.]
Dumsday, Travis. "Alexander of Hales on the Ethics of Vigilantism." Philosophia 48 (2020): 535-45. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-019-00093-5. [Applies Alexander of Hales’ view to the ethics of vigilantism in general (not specific to a just war context, but claims it’s related to that context as well).]
Eckert, Amy E. "The Changing Nature of Legitimate Authority in the Just War Tradition." Journal of Military Ethics 19, no. 2 (2020): 84-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2020.1793479. [Defends the view that non-state actors may permissibly wage war by including some of them under the scope of legitimate authorities.]
Fabre, Cécile. "The Morality of Treason." Law and Philosophy 39, no. 4 (2020): 427-61. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10982-020-09392-5. [Informational treason (passing along secret information to foreign actors without authorization) is sometimes morally obligatory (and so also permissible); and, even when it’s wrong, beneficiaries are sometimes obliged to make use of it.]
Fazal, Tanisha M. "Lengthening the Shadow of International Law." Ethics & International Affairs 34, no. 2 (July 2020). Available online at https://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/2020/lengthening-the-shadow-of-international-law/. [Reviews Noah Weisbord’s The Crime of Aggression and Tom Dannenbaum’s The Crime of Aggression, Humanity, and the Soldier, and advances a skeptical view that criminalizing aggression will advance the normative agendas of either author.]
Frowe, Helen and Massimo Renzo. "Introduction: Symposium on Causation and War." Journal of Applied Philosophy 37, no. 3 (2020): 341-45. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12432. [Motivates studying causation in war by pointing to its importance to the subject of moral liability to defensive harm, and introduces the articles in the symposium.]
Fung, Archon. "Four Levels of Power: A Conception to Enable Liberation." Journal of Political Philosophy 28, no. 2 (2020): 131-57. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopp.12196. [Argues for a fourfold distinction within the concept of “power.”]
Happel, Robin. "Cyber Resilience in an Age of Climate Chaos." Ethics & International Affairs (July 2020). Available online at https://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/2020/cyber-resilience-in-an-age-of-climate-chaos/. [Explores the ways climate change makes national infrastructure more vulnerable to cyberattacks.]
Heinze, Eric A. and Rhiannon Neilsen. "Limited Force and the Return of Reprisals in the Law of Armed Conflict." Ethics & International Affairs 34, no. 2 (2020): 175-88. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0892679420000246. [Argues that the ban on reprisals to limited strikes has largely been ignored by states recently, and that this means that limited strikes and reprisals are likely to lead to military escalation and international instability.]
Kobyliński, Andrzej. "Just and Unjust Memory? The Moral Obligation to Remember All Victims of Wars and Totalitarian Regimes." Journal of Military Ethics 19, no. 2 (2020): 151-62. https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2020.1797987. [Analyzes what the author identifies as a moral obligation to remember victims of wars and totalitarian regimes, and argues that we insufficiently remember the victims of 20th century Communism.]
Lazar, Seth. "Duty and Doubt." Journal of Practical Ethics 8, no. 1 (2020): 28-55. http://www.jpe.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/JPE0053-Lazarr.pdf. [Develops a simple decision theory for deontological decision theory under uncertainty (such as the fog of war).]
Lupton, Danielle L. "The Reputational Costs and Ethical Implications of Coercive Limited Air Strikes: The Fallacy of the Middle-Ground Approach." Ethics & International Affairs 34, no. 2 (2020): 217-28. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0892679420000209. [Argues that same features that make limited air strikes attractive to forces seeking to coerce another party also undermine limited air strikes’ effectiveness as a coercive tool of foreign policy.]
Pearlman, Wendy. "Syrian Views on Obama’s Red Line: The Ethical Case for Strikes against Assad." Ethics & International Affairs 34, no. 2 (2020): 189-200. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0892679420000234. [Provides an ethical (as contrasted with a legalistic) case for limited strikes against the Assad regime in Syria.]
Popović, Petar. "Hans Morgenthau and the Lasting Implications of World War I." Journal of Military Ethics 19, no. 2 (2020): 121-34. https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2020.1794509. [Uses Morgenthau’s thought to defend the view that the end of World War I ushered in a new revolutionary/revisionist era of international politics that extends to the present day.]
Rocheleau, Jordy. "Legitimate Authority as a Jus Ad Bellum Condition: Defense of a Procedural Requirement in Just War Theory." Journal of Military Ethics 19, no. 2 (2020): 99-117. https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2020.1799486. [Argues that legitimate authorization is a necessary condition of jus ad bellum.]
Sartorio, Carolina. "More of a Cause?" Journal of Applied Philosophy 37, no. 3 (2020): 346-63. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12370. [Argues that we should be skeptical that causal contribution comes in degrees when assessing liability in war.]
Straight, Jasmine Rae. "The Right to Self-Defense Against the State." Philosophia (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-020-00212-7. [Argues that restrictions on gun ownership rights undermine the important function of the Second Amendment to allow individuals to defend themselves against the state.]
Stoner, Ian. "Barbarous Spectacle and General Massacre: A Defence of Gory Fictions." Journal of Applied Philosophy 37, no. 4 (2020): 511-27. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12405. [Defends having a taste for gory fictions against candidate arguments that such tastes are immoral.]
Tadros, Victor. "Distributing Responsibility." Philosophy & Public Affairs 48, no. 3 (2020): 223-61. https://doi.org/10.1111/papa.12163. [Defends the view that moral responsibility is itself something that can be distributed by institutions, and that this distribution may be just or unjust.]
Tomlin, Patrick. "Distributive Justice for Aggressors." Law and Philosophy 39, no. 4 (2020): 351-79. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10982-019-09373-3. [Claims that a distinct concept of “narrow proportionality shortfall” is relevant to choosing how to distribute harm among aggressors in conflicts.]
Vilmer, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène. "A Matter of Balance: A French Perspective on Limited Strikes." Ethics & International Affairs 34, no. 2 (2020): 201-15. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0892679420000258. [Adopts a French perspective on the use of limited strikes, and defends a consequentialist rationale for such strikes, i.e., that they should be preventative rather than retributive.]