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FEB 27, 2024 • Video
A Carnegie Council Conversation with the UK Home Secretary
MAR 28, 2024 • Video
Unlocking Cooperation: The Global South and Global North
In the inaugural panel of the "Unlocking Cooperation" series, Ramu Damodaran leads a discussion on forging a path forward for Global South/North collaboration.
OCT 18, 2023 • Video
Unlocking Cooperation: A Global Ethics Day Special Event
In this keynote event for Global Ethics Day 2023, Carnegie Council President Joel Rosenthal led a conversation on the psychology behind cooperation; ways that states, institutions, ...
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MAR 13, 2018 • Article
Free Trade After the 2016 Elections
Did the 2016 election represent a revolt of a significant segment of the U.S. electorate against a seven-decades-long U.S. policy consensus that American interests ...
MAR 13, 2018 • Podcast
The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes, with Dan Plesch
Before Nuremberg--indeed, long before the end of the war--there was the United Nations War Crimes Commission, a little-known agency which assisted national governments in putting ...
MAR 7, 2018 • Podcast
Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations, with Amy Chua
"The United States today is starting to display destructive political dynamics much more typically associated with developing countries: ethno-nationalist movements, the erosion of trust in ...
MAR 7, 2018 • Article
American Engagement: Dialogue with the Newport Circle of Scholars
Recently, Gvosdev had the opportunity to engage in dialogue on the question of what role America ought to be playing in the world with the ...
FEB 21, 2018 • Podcast
Dangerous Delegation: Military Intervention & the U.S. Public, with Kori Schake
Are Americans too deferential to the armed forces, becoming increasingly willing to "outsource" judgement to the military? Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev talks with Dr. Kori ...
FEB 19, 2018 • Article
Munich Security Conference: Mixed Messages on American Values, Engagement
The United States sent mixed signals at the 2018 Munich Security Conference. On the one hand, a bipartisan group of officials stressed continuity and legislative oversight ...
FEB 9, 2018 • Article
American Engagement: When It Comes to Foreign Policy, Does America Deserve Trump?
As the 2018 State of the Union address illustrated and to the great dismay of the "elites," President Trump is truly taking an "America First" approach ...
JAN 31, 2018 • Article
State of the Union: The Era of the Liberal Leviathan Is Over
Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address–and used the rostrum in the House of Representatives to again break with some ...
JAN 26, 2018 • Podcast
Moral Leadership Missing in Burma, with Ambassador Derek Mitchell
Former ambassador to Burma Derek Mitchell examines the complex situation there, including the roots of the ongoing Rohingya crisis and China's influence there. Aung San ...
JAN 26, 2018 • Article
Trump at Davos: Trickle-Down American Engagement
President Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to address the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 2018, where he offered his audience of ...