Devin T. Stewart

Former Senior Fellow, Senior Program Director, and CNL Staff Adviser, Carnegie Council

It is with a heavy heart that we announce Devin Stewart passed away in March 2021.

Stewart had been living in Tokyo. He had become Opinion Editor at the Japan Times after working in recent months with the Eurasia Group Foundation and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

We will always be grateful to Devin for his many contributions to life at Carnegie Council, including his leadership of the Global Ethics Fellows, Centennial Symposia, Thought Leaders Forum, Asia Dialogues, and Carnegie New Leaders program. This list of accomplishments does not begin to register Devin’s impact on the countless people around the world who benefitted from his insight, empathy, joy, and humor.

In his honor please donate to this worthy rescue charity, Magnificat Rescue.

Featured Work

Shanghai, June 2018. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/46362496092">Trey Ratcliff</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">(CC)</a>

JUL 27, 2017 Podcast

Meredith Sumpter: The "G-Zero" World Hits Asia

"First and foremost, a G-zero is a world in which no one country has dominant power or can influence the international system of governance," explains ...

JUL 25, 2017 Podcast

General Donald Bolduc on the U.S. War in Afghanistan

In this inspiring interview, Brig. Gen. Bolduc discusses his time in Afghanistan and his assessment of the situation there as well as in Africa, where ...

JUL 20, 2017 Podcast

Graham Allison on "Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?"

Thucydides's Trap is the dangerous dynamic that occurs when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling power, explains Harvard's Graham Allison. So is war ...

Statues of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il at the Mansu Hill Grand Monument, Pyongyang. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_statues_of_Kim_Il_Sung_and_Kim_Jong_Il_on_Mansu_Hill_in_Pyongyang_(april_2012).jpg">J.A. de Roo (CC)</a>

JUL 18, 2017 Podcast

Isaac Stone Fish: Facts and Fiction on North Korea

Asia Society's Isaac Stone Fish is working on a novel set in Pyongyang, but he's also looking for the truth in the "world's most opaque ...

JUL 13, 2017 Podcast

Mira Rapp-Hooper on "Subcontracting" U.S. Policy Toward Asia

The U.S. and China have fundamentally different priorities regarding the Korean Peninsula, explains Asia expert Rapp-Hooper. "So, by subcontracting North Korea policy to China," ...

Otto von Bismarck, by George Gibbs. Cover of "Saturday Evening Post" Magazine, 1903. <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saturday_evening_post_1903_11_28_a.jpg">Public domain</a>.

JUL 11, 2017 Podcast

Conversation with Raymond Kuo: Can Trump be a Bismarck in Asia?

"This has happened before where we've had a great power who is essentially the leader of the international system taking a transactional approach. The closest ...

JUL 6, 2017 Podcast

Tom Nichols on the Death of Expertise

Across the world today, there is active hostility towards experts, says Tom Nichols of the U.S. Naval War College, and this is a very ...

CREDIT: <a hre="https://www.flickr.com/photos/felibrilu/4120677347/">felibrilu</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/">CC</a>)

JUN 29, 2017 Podcast

Amitai Etzioni on Avoiding War with China

The result of a war with China? "At best we have to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons nobody will use which are ...

North Korea, Mass Games. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/fljckr/1027994656/sizes/l/">Stephan</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC</a>)

JUN 27, 2017 Podcast

Ali Wyne on the Risks of U.S. Disengagement from Asia

"Unless we are able to overcome our strategic attention deficit disorder for lack of a better phrase, and unless we are able to not only ...

Devin Stewart & Admiral John Richardson, chief of naval operations, U.S. Navy. CREDIT: Amanda Ghanooni

JUN 2, 2017 Podcast

The U.S. Navy's View on Security in Asia and Beyond

Carnegie Council's Devin Stewart talks with Admiral John Richardson, the U.S. Navy's most senior-ranking officer. Topics include strategy; the security challenges the Navy faces ...