Sanctions, Tariffs and the Ethics of Economic Coercion (UPSC Ethics — GS IV)
Sanctions are treated as the humane alternative to war, and the case for that treatment is weaker than it looks. A measure that starves…
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Military Ethics in the Age of Drones: Jus ad Bellum, Jus in Bello and Autonomous Targeting (UPSC Ethics — GS IV)
Remote and autonomous weapons do not create new moral categories; they put pressure on old ones in a specific place. Proportionality was always a…
Medical Ethics for the Administrator: Autonomy, Beneficence, Justice and the Triage Decision (UPSC Ethics — GS IV)
A clinician's patient is a person and their instrument is treatment; an administrator's patient is a population and their instrument is allocation. The four…
Research Integrity: Plagiarism, Paper Mills and the Ethics of AI-Written Authorship (UPSC Ethics — GS IV)
Research misconduct in its textbook form — fabrication, falsification, plagiarism — is rare and detectable. The practices that corrupt the scientific record at scale…
Lobbying, Crony Capitalism and the Ethics of Access (UPSC Ethics — GS IV)
Representation of interests is a democratic necessity; purchased privilege is not. Three checkable questions separate them — is the contact on the record, could…
The Revolving Door: Post-Retirement Employment, Cooling-Off Periods and Regulatory Capture (UPSC Ethics — GS IV)
Capture rarely requires a bribe. It requires only that a regulator share the worldview of the regulated, depend on them for information, and have…
Integrity Pacts, Beneficial Ownership and UNCAC: How the World Fights Bribery (UPSC Ethics — GS IV)
An integrity pact works because it converts a collective-action problem into a contract: a bidder who would not refuse a bribe alone will accept…
The Prevention of Corruption Act and Section 17A: Consent to Investigate and the Chilling-Effect Debate (UPSC Ethics — GS IV)
Section 17A places a permission requirement in front of the investigation itself, not only in front of the prosecution. Both the harms it is…
Ethical Leadership and Institutional Integrity: Why Tone at the Top Decides Everything Below (UPSC Ethics — GS IV)
Whether a rule binds is a prediction subordinates make about what the head of office will do when the phone rings. A leader can…
Moral Courage in Administration: What It Actually Costs to Say No (UPSC Ethics — GS IV)
Saying no in an Indian office is almost never a single act; it is a graded ladder, and each rung is a step rather…
Lessons from the Lives of Administrators: What Careers Teach That Codes Cannot (UPSC Ethics — GS IV)
Personal honesty is common among the officers whose careers are worth studying, and it predicts almost nothing about whether anything changed. The ones who…
Bhakti and Sufi Ethics: Love, Equality and the Moral Critique of Hierarchy (UPSC Ethics — GS IV)
Read as ethics rather than as history, Bhakti and Sufi thought make the same move: remove the mediator between a person and the divine,…