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Photo: Allison Kwesell. Senior Fellow Devin T. Stewart examines a car destroyed by the March 2011 tsunami.

JUL 24, 2015 Article

The Ethics of Nuclear Power: Reflections on Carnegie Council Site Visit to Fukushima, Japan

As part of Carnegie Council's Global Ethical Dialogues site visits to eight countries around the world, in June 2015 the Council led a team of researchers, ...

Learning Initiative - Namie Township, Fukushima, Japan, Case Study

JUL 24, 2015 Article

Namie Township, Fukushima, Japan, Case Study

This case study of ethical decisions, developed by Learning Initiative Inc., is based on archival data at Namie Township, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, from the March 2011 ...

JUL 21, 2015 Journal Online Exclusive

A Conversation on Climate Change with Conservation International's M. Sanjayan

M. SANJAYAN AND ZACH DORFMAN In this interview, M. Sanjayan, senior scientist at Conservation International, discusses our climate-changed world, and why—on some days at ...

JUL 16, 2015 Journal Online Exclusive

How Obama Solved U.S.-Iran Relations' "Trolley Problem"

HUSSEIN BANAI The announcement of a comprehensive deal on Iran’s nuclear program is a significant achievement of international diplomacy. The predicament faced—and perhaps ...

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JUL 15, 2015 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: China's Disruptors: How Alibaba, Xiaomi, Tencent, and Other Companies are Changing the Rules of Business

Entrepreneurs emerging from China are redefining the nature of business—not just in China, but everywhere in the world. The new millionaires and billionaires are ...

JUL 13, 2015 Journal Online Exclusive

The Risks of the "Shaming" Approach to Policy

The Bosnian tragedy is a case where unwillingness to really get involved should have been the spur to finding a compromise.

Cesar Harada. CREDIT: <a href="http://bit.ly/1To6UK9" target="_blank"> TEDxKyoto</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JUL 9, 2015 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: "The problems are so huge I can't be pessimistic"

A conversation with Cesar Harada, inventor, environmentalist, and entrepreneur, on oceans, the difficulties of founding a startup, and letting curiosity guide your learning.

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JUL 2, 2015 Article

U.S.-Russia Relations: Critical and Unstable

"What was a troubled relationship is now on life support, and the deterioration has taken place in the most existentially perilous area of arms control, ...

JUL 1, 2015 Journal

Summer 2015 (29.2)

This issue includes essays by Jim Sleeper on liberal education in illiberal societies and by Rahul Sagar on the ethics of surveillance and disclosure; features ...

JUN 22, 2015 Journal Online Exclusive

Response to "Against Moral Absolutism: Surveillance and Disclosure After Snowden"

WILLIAM E. SCHEUERMAN U.S. officials have acted irresponsibly, and because of thoughtful critics like Greenwald and Snowden, they may finally pay a modest price ...