Podcasts

Statues of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il at the Mansu Hill Grand Monument, Pyongyang. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_statues_of_Kim_Il_Sung_and_Kim_Jong_Il_on_Mansu_Hill_in_Pyongyang_(april_2012).jpg">J.A. de Roo (CC)</a>

JUL 18, 2017 • Podcast

Isaac Stone Fish: Facts and Fiction on North Korea

Asia Society's Isaac Stone Fish is working on a novel set in Pyongyang, but he's also looking for the truth in the "world's most opaque ...

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JUL 13, 2017 • Podcast

Mira Rapp-Hooper on "Subcontracting" U.S. Policy Toward Asia

The U.S. and China have fundamentally different priorities regarding the Korean Peninsula, explains Asia expert Rapp-Hooper. "So, by subcontracting North Korea policy to China," ...

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JUL 12, 2017 • Podcast

Pankaj Ghemawat on Global Strategy in the Age of Brexit and Trump

How should companies strategize in the age of "Brump" (shorthand for Brexit and Trump)? Should they think locally rather than globally? Are trade wars inevitable, ...

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JUL 12, 2017 • Journal Online Exclusive

What We’ve Been Reading

Welcome to our roundup of news and current events related to ethics and international affairs! Here’s what we’ve been reading this month.

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Otto von Bismarck, by George Gibbs. Cover of "Saturday Evening Post" Magazine, 1903. <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saturday_evening_post_1903_11_28_a.jpg">Public domain</a>.

JUL 11, 2017 • Podcast

Conversation with Raymond Kuo: Can Trump be a Bismarck in Asia?

"This has happened before where we've had a great power who is essentially the leader of the international system taking a transactional approach. The closest ...

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Brazos Wind Farm near Fluvanna, Texas. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GreenMountainWindFarm_Fluvanna_2004.jpg">Leaflet</a>

JUL 10, 2017 • Podcast

The Earth Institute's Steven Cohen Offers Hope for a Sustainable Future

"I still believe that we're heading toward a renewable resource-based economy. I think that it's inevitable," declares Steven Cohen. How will we get there? A ...

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JUL 6, 2017 • Podcast

Tom Nichols on the Death of Expertise

Across the world today, there is active hostility towards experts, says Tom Nichols of the U.S. Naval War College, and this is a very ...

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JUL 1, 2017 • Journal

Summer 2017 (31.2)

We are pleased to announce the publication of the Summer 2017 issue of Ethics & International Affairs! This issue contains a special section on legitimate authority, war, ...

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