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JAN 22, 2013 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: Should Scholarly Research Be Free For All?

Facing prosecution for illegally downloading millions of academic articles, Internet activist Aaron Swartz recently committed suicide. Should Swartz have been facing jail time? Should scholarly ...

JAN 18, 2013 Podcast

Ethics Matter: Top Risks and Ethical Decisions 2013 with Ian Bremmer

"There are three big things happening right now in the world: China rising, Middle East exploding, Europe muddling through. Those are the things that truly ...

Aung San Suu Kyi, state counsellor of Myanmar. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Remise_du_Prix_Sakharov_%C3%A0_Aung_San_Suu_Kyi_Strasbourg_22_octobre_2013-08.jpg">Claude TRUONG-NGOC (CC)</a>

JAN 17, 2013 Podcast

A Fragile New Burma

Back from a recent fact-finding trip to Burma, veteran Asia correspondent Barbara Crossette reports on the complex situation there. People have high hopes for more ...

JAN 14, 2013 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: Sexual Violence in India: From Punishment to Deterrence

A brutal gang rape on a New Delhi bus has sparked global outrage and national soul-searching in India. Many are calling for the death penalty ...

JAN 7, 2013 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: Not Enough Fish in the Sea?

Marine fish stocks are dangerously low, but this hasn't stopped China from sending its fishing fleets to distant waters, sometimes illegally. Could China's insatiable appetite ...

Seyed Hossein Mousavian

JAN 3, 2013 Podcast

Prospects for U.S.-Iran Relations

Iran and the U.S. have a long list of common interests, including Afghanistan, stability in Iraq, and fighting drug trafficking. A good way to ...

DEC 21, 2012 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: Are Women Second Class Citizens in the U.S. Military?

Despite making valuable contributions to the U.S. military since the Civil War, women are still technically excluded from direct ground combat roles. Is this ...

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DEC 17, 2012 Podcast

Japan's Corporate Culture: Sleepwalking to Oblivion?

Japan's corporate culture is in serious trouble, declare our two speakers. It's "sleepwalking to oblivion," says Michael Woodford, former Olympus CEO turned whistleblower. And according ...

DEC 17, 2012 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: Justice For Some, But Not For All?

Recent acquittals of Croat and Kosovo-Albanian officials in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia have left some doubting the UN court's impartiality. What ...

The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics

DEC 14, 2012 Podcast

The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics

In the Cold War, the path to nuclear war always led through Moscow and Washington. In the second nuclear age the triggers to nuclear war ...