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DEC 20, 2017 Article

A New World? Changes in the Global Order

Lowell Schwartz of the Naval War College says that we are in the midst of a major shift: the prevailing assumptions of the last 25 years ...

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DEC 19, 2017 Article

Fantastic Voyage

As Ignatieff puts the question in his book, "Is globalization drawing us together morally? Beneath all our differences, what virtues, principles, and rules of conduct ...

ICRC and the Afghan Red Crescent Society in Faryab Province, Afghanistan, May 2006. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/icrc/8536526544">ICRC/Marcel Stoessel</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">(CC)</a>

DEC 15, 2017 Podcast

Humanitarian Ethics and the Red Cross, with Hugo Slim

"I would say that the principle of humanity, and humanity in war even, is a global ethic. We can trace it through human history," says ...

DEC 14, 2017 Podcast

Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly with Safwan M. Masri

Did you know that Tunisia started championing women's rights in the eighth century, and is still far ahead of most Arab and Muslim-majority countries? Indeed ...

DEC 11, 2017 Podcast

Slowing the Proliferation of Major Conventional Weapons with Jonathan D. Caverley

Although today's hot topic is nuclear proliferation, let's not forget that wars like Syria are being fought with conventional ones, such as aircraft and artillery. ...