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MAY 20, 2011 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: Training SEAL Team 6: The Point of the Sword

Could SEAL Team 6 have captured bin Laden alive? Should training for elite military forces prioritize thoughtfulness at the risk of indecision?

Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town

MAY 18, 2011 Article

Blood Brothers

A work of taut and absorbing beauty, Christopher de Bellaigue's "Rebel Land" documents the author's journey to and exploration of the area known as eastern ...

Former KGB Headquarters by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/malinki/2514145204/" target=_blank">Malinki</a>

MAY 18, 2011 Podcast

Evgeny Savostiyanov on Dismantling the Moscow Communist KGB

Evgeny Savostiyanov was one of two key appointments made by "reformist" Mayor Gavriil Popov during his brief tenure as mayor of Moscow from 1990-92. Savostiyanov ...

MAY 17, 2011 Podcast

Beyond Good Intentions: The Promise and Peril of Citizen Engagement with Foreign Policy

What were the accomplishments and failures of the U.S. grassroots movements that responded to the humanitarian crisis in Darfur and how do these lessons ...

MAY 13, 2011 Podcast

Ethics Matter: Political Scientist and Economist Francis Fukuyama

How does Francis Fukuyama view state formation, normative issues, and human behavior? Does he believe (as Andrew Carnegie did) that history moves in an upward ...