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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 change at manageable levels by 2050. But ...

MAY 13, 2009 Podcast

The Crisis of Islamic Civilization

What caused the decline of Islamic civilization and how can it be revived? Ali A. Allawi lays out key principles that could make it flourish ...

MAY 11, 2009 Podcast

After President Obama's Visit to Europe: U.S. Relations with the EU, NATO, and Russia

Distinguished German statesman Karsten Voigt discusses the German political mindset, which grew out of its situation after World War II; Obama's popularity in Germany; and ...

MAY 8, 2009 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: The Health Legacy of Nuclear Test Veterans

Participants in Britain's nuclear weapons testing program argued recently that health was damaged by radiation. Who is responsible? Should compensation be a legal matter or ...