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APR 6, 2011 Journal

Clean Trade in Natural Resources

The resource curse impedes core interests of importing states, while the policies of these states drive the resource curse. These policies violate importing states' existing ...

APR 6, 2011 Journal

Face Reality? After You!--A Call for Leadership on Climate Change

Humanity's so far leaderless approach to dealing with rapidly accelerating climate change embodies a profoundly tragic catch-22 that has, among other twists and contradictions, transmuted ...

APR 6, 2011 Journal

Middle-Ground Ethics: Can One Be Politically Realistic Without Being a Political Realist? [Full Text]

Thinking about international affairs has oscillated between idealism and realism throughout the modern period. Moralists continue to search for a way to combine what is ...

APR 6, 2011 Journal

From the Editor [Full Text]

Twenty-five years ago the Carnegie Council published the first issue of Ethics & International Affairs with the aim of addressing head-on the intersection of these two ...

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APR 6, 2011 Podcast

The Arab Uprisings: The View from Cairo

As president of the American University of Cairo, Lisa Anderson was a witness to the recent protests in Tahrir Square. In this fascinating talk, she ...

APR 5, 2011 Podcast

One Nation Under Surveillance: A New Social Contract to Defend Freedom Without Sacrificing Liberty

The boundaries between public and private are crumbling fast, often with the active or passive consent of those whose privacy is breached. What limits, if ...

APR 3, 2011 Podcast

Captain James Staples on International Piracy

Everyone knows that the only real solution to piracy in the Indian Ocean is to stabilize Somalia and revive its economy, says Merchant Marine Captain ...

APR 1, 2011 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: The Impact of Dependence on Oil

Oil is cost-efficient as a primary energy source--in the short term. Long-term, however, oil poses economic risks and damages the environment. Should we allow markets ...

APR 1, 2011 Journal

Spring 2011 (25.1)

Joel Rosenthal

MAR 25, 2011 Podcast

Rahim Kanani Interviews Joel Rosenthal

Joel Rosenthal gives his assessment of President Obama's foreign policy, the Middle East and North Africa protests, the WikiLeaks revelations, U.S. leadership in the ...