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Listen to the latest insights from Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Tune in to hear from leading experts and thinkers, identifying and addressing the most critical ethical issues of today and tomorrow.

MAY 26, 2009 Podcast

Forced to Labor: The Cost of Coercion

The Carnegie Council and the International Labour Organization (ILO) present a unique look at modern slavery from the personal, policy, and enforcement perspectives, to shed ...

MAY 26, 2009 Podcast

The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World

Michelle Goldberg exposes the global war on women's reproductive rights and its disastrous and unreported consequences for the future of global development.

MAY 22, 2009 Podcast

George Kennan, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War Reconsidered

Historian John Lukacs discusses his close friend George Kennan. Kennan was an architect of the Cold War, but after 1950 he became one of its critics ...

MAY 22, 2009 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: How Do We Know When We've Been Bad?

To become ethical, must behavior be grounded in a religious faith or other system of belief? How do we judge the behavior of states and ...

MAY 20, 2009 Podcast

The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East

Despite all the bloodshed in its recent history, the Middle East is still a place of warmth, humanity, and generous eccentricity. Within the turmoil there ...

MAY 19, 2009 Podcast

The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are Reshaping the World

What are the driving emotions behind our cultural differences? How do these varying emotions influence the political, social, and cultural conflicts that roil our world?

image of book cover The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One

MAY 19, 2009 Podcast

The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One

Have U.S. actions in the "war on terror" blurred the distinction between local and global struggles? How can the U.S. develop strategies that ...

MAY 15, 2009 Podcast

Devin Stewart Interviews Kazumasa Iwata

Kazumasa Iwata, head of the Japanese Cabinet Office's Economic and Social Research Institute, discusses moving towards a low-carbon society, Japan's response to the financial crisis, ...

MAY 15, 2009 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: Is the Free Market Central to America's Future?

New York is no longer viewed as the financial capital of the world, or even of the United States. Given the recent government intervention in ...

The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity

MAY 15, 2009 Podcast

The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity

Renowned economist Lord Nicholas Stern estimates that it will cost only about 2 percent of global GDP to control climate changeĀ at manageable levels by 2050. But ...