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NOV 11, 2008 Podcast

The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism

America is facing a profound triple crisis: the economy, the government, and an involvement in endless wars. This threatens all of us, Republicans and Democrats ...

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NOV 11, 2008 Article

Don't Give Up on Globalization

Globalization is an attitude of openness, and whether in cultural attitudes or economics, openness improves the lives of citizens by expanding opportunities for choice, says ...

NOV 7, 2008 Podcast

Business and Human Rights: Achievements and Prospects

UN Special Representative John Ruggie presents his conceptual framework for business and human rights, and his plan to develop practical recommendations for all relevant stakeholders.

NOV 7, 2008 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: Disaster Relief and Ethics

We enter a slippery ethical slope when we begin to make distinctions between victims. When can an individual's rights be set aside?

The Shape of the World to Come: Charting the Geopolitics of a New Century

NOV 4, 2008 Podcast

The Shape of the World to Come: Charting the Geopolitics of a New Century

French intellectual Laurent Cohen-Tanugi argues that economic globalization exists in a complex dialectic with the traditional geopolitics that it has, ironically, helped to revive.