MAY 13, 2016 • Podcast
A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS
In this memorable conversation, "New York Times" journalists Robert Worth and Roger Cohen discuss Worth's latest book about the Arab Spring and its aftermath. Was ...
MAY 12, 2016 • Article
The Fifth Annual Moscow Conference on International Security
David Speedie attended this important three-day conference and reports that "a global array of speakers articulated a corresponding range of country/area-specific concerns, much of ...
MAY 12, 2016 • Podcast
Global Ethics Forum Preview: Beyond Silicon Valley with Elmira Bayrasli
On the next Global Ethics Forum, Foreign Policy Interrupted co-founder Elmira Bayrasli discusses the role of women in entrepreneurship and politics. In this excerpt, Bayrasli ...
MAY 9, 2016 • Podcast
A Filmmaker's Experience on Leaving Japan
Documentary filmmaker and TV journalist Kyoko Gasha discusses her film "Mothers' Way, Daughters' Choice," which is about Japanese women (like she herself) who remade their ...
MAY 6, 2016 • Podcast
Global Ethics Forum Preview: The Ethics of the Refugee/Migrant Crisis with Peter Sutherland
On the next Global Ethics Forum, Peter Sutherland, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for International Migration, discusses the ethics of the refugee crisis. ...
MAY 5, 2016 • News
Michael Ignatieff named president of Budapest's Central European University
Carnegie Council Centennial Chair Michael Ignatieff has been appointed president and rector of Central European University in Budapest.The graduate university, started by philanthropist George ...
MAY 4, 2016 • Podcast
Us and Them? Bridget Anderson on Migrants and Nation-States
Underlying people's economic fears about migrants taking their jobs are much deeper anxieties about nationality, culture, and race, says Bridget Anderson, professor of migration and ...
MAY 3, 2016 • Podcast
Gender Identity in Japan
Sonja Pei-fen Dale teaches at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University, where she specializes in LGBT gender issues and identities in Japan. In this fascinating conversation about gender ...