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SEP 24, 2013 Article

Ethics Primer Part I: Background and Theories

The discipline of ethics begins with Socrates’ question: How should one live? Ethics is about choice. What values guide us? What standards do we use? ...

SEP 23, 2013 Article

Threats Beyond the Headlines

“The Fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” So begins Isaiah Berlin’s essay, “The Hedgehog and Fox.” One year after ...

SEP 23, 2013 Podcast

Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God

Created and armed by Iran, Hezbollah's reach stretches around the world, including inside the United States. Matthew Levitt traces its terrifying activities and discusses how ...

Journalist Seymour Hersh at the Torture & Foreign Policy Seminar

SEP 17, 2013 Article

Update from the Carnegie Global Oregon Learning Community

The Carnegie Global Oregon Freshman Interest Group and learning community (CGO) is a pioneering effort that partners the University of Oregon with Carnegie Council to ...

Citadel of Aleppo, 2007. Damaged by shelling, 2012. CREDIT: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/kkuwfw3">Watchsmart</a>,  (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>)

SEP 17, 2013 Article

The Fate of Cultural Property in Wartime: Why it Matters and What Should Be Done

Cultural property protection in conflict is often neglected as people argue that the lives of individuals in warzones are far more important than old buildings, ...