Overview
Public Affairs hosted speakers who are prominent people in the world of international affairs, from acclaimed authors, to Nobel laureates, to high-ranking UN officials.
MAY 10, 2002 • Transcript
Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
"We need to steer technology towards aims that are clearly therapeutic and away from ones that involve essentially human redesign, trying to improve our human ...
MAY 7, 2002 • Transcript
Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam
The communications revolution of the late 20th century made Muslims around the world aware that they were part of a global community, a development that ...
APR 17, 2002 • Transcript
Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
Today, Islamist movements in the Middle East are fragmented, according to Gilles Kepel, and no longer have the capacity to mobilize different social groups simultaneously ...
APR 17, 2002 • Transcript
The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity
Christian influence on world events is less likely to originate in the United States or Europe than in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, where a ...
APR 15, 2002 • Transcript
Al-Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East
The Qatar-based television network Al-Jazeera has been a hugely positive force in the Middle East, according to Mohammed el-Nawawy and Adel Iskander Farag, because it ...
APR 11, 2002 • Transcript
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
Why did the United States largely ignore the Rwandan genocide and yet devote endless time to the contemporaneous Bosnian crisis? According to Samantha Power, the ...
MAR 26, 2002 • Transcript
What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
In this learned talk given just six months after 9/11, Lewis explains that in the Middle East there are two prevailing opinions about why the Islamic ...
MAR 14, 2002 • Transcript
Human Rights and the Campaign Against Terrorism
Governments around the world are wrong to use the war on terrorism as an excuse to disregard human rights principles, says Kenneth Roth. "The war ...
MAR 11, 2002 • Transcript
Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline
"The nature of modern academic life is inimical to creative public intellectual activity," says Richard A. Posner. In his view, today academic public intellectuals serve ...
MAR 6, 2002 • Transcript
The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone
Joseph Nye argues that U.S. leaders must create a framework that preserves American values congruent with those of other people in the world. "If ...