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Carnegie Council Podcast
Listen to events at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Speakers include distinguished authors, government and UN officials, economists, and policymakers. Also featured are in-depth interviews conducted by CBS journalist Jere Van Dyk. Topics range from the ethics of war and peace, to the place of religion in politics, to issues at the forefront of global social justice. To learn more about our work and to explore a wealth of related resources, please visit our website at http://www.carnegiecouncil.org.
- Global Ethics Corner: Fear and the Financial Implosion
Will our responses to the financial crisis be constructive, or will panic cloud our judgments? How do you face fear in a time of crisis? - Global Ethics Corner: Market Capitalism Questioned
Will people associate U.S. power with "global misery" or with the opportunity and pluralism that Obama's victory represents? There is clearly a need to reflect on the future of market capitalism. - Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization
How can we understand the dynamics of globalization? The idea of network power supplies a coherent set of terms and concepts, which are applicable to individuals, businesses, and countries alike. - Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Other Economic Leaders
Kinsley and Easterly discuss Bill Gates's controversial idea he calls "creative capitalism," in which big corporations integrate doing good into their way of doing business. - Health as a Human Right: Rights, Roles, and Responsibilities
The international community has begun to consider the "highest attainable standard of health" as a fundamental component of the human rights agenda, alongside related issues of poverty and adequate access to water and sanitation. - Public Ethics Radio: Larry Temkin on Extending Human Lifespans
What would a world in which everyone lived beyond 100 be like? Would it really be worth it for us? Temkin believes that we need to take a good hard look at all sides of the question of aging, rather than just blindly hoping for the best. - Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East
Kepel offers alternatives to the American "war on terror" that he believes will help to transcend terror and martyrdom and also to ensure the decisive marginalization of jihadist radicalism. - Devin Stewart Interviews Seth Kaplan on "Fixing Fragile States"
Seth Kaplan gives an in-depth look at how weak states can promote and leverage "social cohesion" to help build development from the bottom up. - The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Does the symbiotic relationship between China and America--"Chimerica" as Niall Ferguson calls it--give reason to hope that America's present economic situation will turn out to be not a crash, but a correction? - Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
We are harming our children--and almost anyone who creates, enjoys, or sells any art form--with a restrictive copyright system driven by corporate interests. Lessig reveals the solutions to this impasse offered by a collaborative yet profitable "hybrid economy." - Global Ethics Corner: Can Effective Leaders be Ethical Leaders?
Are ethics primary questions that precede and surround practical leadership? - 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 the region; and the surprising "detente" between China and Japan. - Global Ethics Corner--Obama: Hope and Change, but for Whom?
How will President Obama deal with the hopes and fears of people abroad? Will his priority be the interests of the United States or will the welfare of those beyond America’s borders also count? - Global Ethics Corner: Disaster Relief and Ethics
We enter a slippery ethical slope when we begin to make distinctions between victims. When can an individual's rights be set aside? - The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity
For 30 years, the economic condition of most Americans has become ever more precarious, even as the overall output of the economy has doubled. To change this requires a cogent ideology and politics of a managed, rather than laissez-faire, brand of capitalism.  - Iran and the United States: David Speedie Interviews Gary Sick
The Bush administration has been toying with the idea of talking to Iran for the last two years. With the arrival of Obama, now the question is not "should we," but how do we go about doing it? - How East Asians View Democracy
Nathan and Chu report on surveys in five new democracies (Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, and Mongolia), one established one (Japan), and two nondemocracies (China and Hong Kong). - Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations
From the scapegoating of "witches" in Africa, to the pitfalls of speed-dating, to the cultures that foster corruption, Raymond Fisman explores the economics and pyschology behind the choices we make. - David Speedie Interviews Ted Sorensen
"A president who doesn't go to war may show more courage than one who does," said JFK. In a wide-ranging conversation, Sorensen discusses JFK, Cuba, and Vietnam; the 2008 Russia/Georgia conflict; McCain's idea of a League of Nations; and the promise of Obama. - The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
"As the American appetite for freedom has grown, so too has our penchant for empire," writes expert in history and international relations and former U.S. Army Colonel Andrew Bacevich.  - Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East
How did the modern Middle East come about? Who were the British and Americans who shaped this region from the 1882 British invasion of Egypt to today's Iraq War? - Global Ethics Corner: Slow Versus Fast Food
Is fast food an ethical as well as a dietary issue? Yes, says the slow-food movement whose motto is: good, clean, fair food. Let's look at this claim more closely. - The Shape of the World to Come
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. - Business and Human Rights: Achievements and Prospects
UN Special Representative John Ruggie presents his conceptual framework for business and human rights, and his plan to develop practical recommendations for all relevant stakeholders. - Russia and Georgia: How Did We Get There and What's Next? David Speedie Interviews Oksana Antonenko
Russia and Georgia expert Oksana Antonenko discusses the August 2008 conflict in Georgia, the history of the region, and what the future may bring. - Public Ethics Radio: Larry May on Habeas Corpus
Are habeas corpus petitions, as Barack Obama put it, "the foundation of Anglo-American law"? Or are they just nuisance lawsuits, as John McCain claims? - Ark of the Liberties: America and the World
Ted Widmer shows that from its beginnings, the United States, for all its shortfalls, has been by far the world’s greatest advocate