Our Podcasts
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.
NOV 5, 2013 • Podcast
Ethics Matter: A Conversation with Writer Kurt Andersen
Journalist, novelist, entrepreneur, cultural critic, award-winning radio broadcaster--all of these describe Kurt Andersen. In this lively conversation, he talks about his career (including being fired ...
OCT 30, 2013 • Podcast
Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
"America has strayed pretty far from the pioneer spirit captured by Willa Cather and the movie 'Shane,'" says Nobel Prize-winner Edmund Phelps. What happened? ...
OCT 19, 2013 • Podcast
Protecting Women Refusing to be Victims of Violence
"Our goal is to truly provide justice to incredibly courageous women and girls who have suffered things that make us uncomfortable. They have suffered things ...
OCT 15, 2013 • Journal Online Exclusive
After the Catastrophe: Ian Buruma on 1945
In his recent visit to Carnegie Council, Ian Buruma gave a fascinating talk about the postwar world, which originated during what he calls "year zero"...
OCT 10, 2013 • Podcast
Anna Stilz on Occupancy Rights
Any attempts to tackle the problems of long-term refugees will have to address occupancy rights. Why do we have the right to live in a ...
OCT 9, 2013 • Podcast
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
We should break free of the cliché that World War I was futile, argues Max Hastings. "Germany in 1914, as ruled by the Kaiser and his ...
OCT 8, 2013 • Journal Online Exclusive
The UN’s Unprecedented Gamble in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The Forward Intervention Brigade represents an unprecedented use of the Security Council’s Chapter VII peacekeeping mandate, and risks undermining peacekeeping’s core tenets of ...
OCT 7, 2013 • Podcast
Important Choices: Foreign Policy and Defense Spending
How much does the U.S. actually spend on defense and where does that money go? Lawrence Korb, an expert on the federal budget, the ...
OCT 4, 2013 • Podcast
The Road to War: Presidential Commitments Honored and Betrayed
The last declaration of war authorized by Congress was World War II, yet the U.S. has been entangled in many wars since. Why have ...
OCT 4, 2013 • Podcast
Strategy: A History
Creating a successful strategy is not just a question of being cleverer than your opponent. Sir Lawrence Freedman lays out some cardinal rules: think about ...