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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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APR 15, 2009 • Podcast
Winston Churchill's Evolving Views of Russia, 1917-1953, Reconsidered
John Lukacs argues that despite the different attitudes Winston Churchill took towards Russia over a 40-year period, there is an amazing consistency to his view ...
APR 2, 2009 • Article
Reverse China Hedge
Several factors might explain China's multifaceted approach toward the United States, including economic woes, uncertainty about how the financial crisis will play out, and an ...
MAR 18, 2009 • Podcast
Great Powers: America and the World after Bush
Military geostrategist Thomas P. M. Barnett argues that the 21st century will see the rise of a global middle class for the first time, which ...
MAR 10, 2009 • Podcast
Political Futures Mar 09 Segment 3: US Foreign Policy (4:53 mins)
Is the new U.S. administration off to a good start with its approach to foreign policy?
MAR 10, 2009 • Podcast
Ann Florini on Global Governance
Florini discusses the difference between "global government" and "global governance," intergovernmental organizations such as the UN, and the role and achievements of civil society and ...
FEB 2, 2009 • Article
Letter from the United States to Iran
In a possible letter from the United States to Iran, David Speedie writes of the two nations' shared interests, the causes that divide them, and ...
DEC 22, 2008 • Podcast
A Conversation on NATO
The post-Cold War NATO has expanded, both in mission and membership. In each instance, problems have arisen with Russia. What are the lessons to be ...
DEC 12, 2008 • Podcast
Devin Stewart Interviews Chong-Pin Lin
Dr. Lin discusses Taiwan's current political crisis; relations with China; climate change; the future of democracy in East Asia; what Obama's presidency may mean for ...
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 ...
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.