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.
JAN 13, 2005 • Podcast
What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building
Feldman, a constitutional expert and Arabic-speaker sent to Iraq by the Bush administration, argues that U.S. intervention in Iraq amounts to a moral promise. ...
DEC 8, 2004 • Podcast
The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy
T. R. Reid discusses the state of European integration and argues that Americans are not aware of the extent to which the EU has turned ...
DEC 7, 2004 • Podcast
Challenges in UN Peacekeeping Operations
The demand for UN peacekeeping troops has risen at an unprecedented rate, says Guéhenno, Under-Secretary General for UN Peacekeeping Operations. This presents enormous challenges, ...
NOV 30, 2004 • Podcast
Humanitarianism under Fire
How can humanitarian organizations and their workers maintain their traditional neutrality, impartiality, and independence—and should they?
NOV 18, 2004 • Podcast
Bioethical Debates on Human Enhancement
Edited transcript of a 11/18/04 Leonard Lopate show on WNYC radio on the ethical challenges posed by the rapid advances in biotechnology.
NOV 16, 2004 • Podcast
Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe
Graham Allison makes a sobering assessment on why a nuclear attack on U.S. soil is inevitable unless we take immediate, well-concerted measures.
OCT 30, 2004 • Podcast
The Human Rights of the Sukan Al-ahwar (Marsh Arabs of Iraq)
According to Baroness Nicholson, the Saddam regime's crimes against the Marsh Arabs from 1991 to 2003 constitute an incontrovertible case of genocide, which is in its turn "...
OCT 28, 2004 • Podcast
In Defense of Globalization
While a leading free trade proponent, professor Jagdish Bhagwati does not advocate total laissez-faire economics. Instead he argues that continued globalization needs to be "managed."
OCT 26, 2004 • Podcast
The Marsh Arabs of Iraq: The Legacy of Saddam Hussein and an Agenda for Restoration and Justice
While Saddam Hussein's persecution of the Kurds is well known, few are aware that he drained Iraq's southern marshlands as part of a deliberate strategy ...
OCT 13, 2004 • Podcast
Arguing About War (2004)
Walzer rejects the argument that the invasion of Iraq was justified: "It is only massacre or ethnic cleansing or mass enslavement in progress that justifies ...