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Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1914, the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs is an independent, nonprofit, educational 501(c)3 institution serving international affairs professionals, teachers and students, and the attentive public. Since its inception, the Council has focused on the enduring importance of ethical values in international relations. Then, as now, the Council aspires to be a worldwide "voice for ethics." It provides a nonpartisan, open forum for discussions that go beyond the political efficacy and economic efficiency of policies to questions of values, principles, and moral argument--discussions which might not otherwise take place.

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  • The Evolution of God

    Thu, May 13, 2010
    Journalist and Author Richard Wright explains his analysis of the "evolution of God", for which he uses game theory. According to Wright, a religion that sees itself in a zero-sum relationship with outsiders will prove exclusionist and violent, while a religion that sees itself in a non-zero-sum relationship will adjust its theology accordingly.
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  • How to Build Sustainable Societies

    Tue, Oct 5, 2010
    To explain what it will take to build sustainable societies, Sartaz Ahmed of Booz discusses building sustainable cities; Larry Burns (formerly of GM) discusses clean vehicles; and architect Joan Krevlin discusses green buildings.
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    One Nation Under Contract: Outsourcing American Power

    Fri, Oct 15, 2010
    Political scientist Allison Stanger shows how contractors became an integral part of U.S. foreign policy, often in scandalous ways, but maintains that the problem is not contractors, but the absence of good government. Outsourcing done right is, in fact, indispensable to U.S. interests today. Allison Stanger is the Russell Leng '60 Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College and director of the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
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  • The Lost Peace: Leadership from 1945-1953

    Wed, Oct 20, 2010
    In a striking reinterpretation of the postwar years, historian Robert Dallek examines what drove leaders around the globe—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Mao, de Gaulle, and Truman—to rely on traditional power politics, and points out the lessons we can draw from their mistakes. Robert Dallek is a historian specializing in U.S. presidents and was a history professor at Boston University.
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    A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance

    Thu, Oct 21, 2010
    Amar Bhide takes apart the so-called advances in modern finance, showing how backward-looking, top-down models were used to mass-produce toxic products. He offers tough, simple rules: limit banks and all deposit taking institutions to basic lending and nothing else. Amar Bhidé is a visiting scholar at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and is the former Lawrence D. Glaubinger Professor of Business at Columbia University.
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    Kevin Kelly: What Technology Wants

    Mon, Oct 18, 2010
    In a brand-new view of technology, co-founder of *Wired* magazine Kevin Kelly suggests that it is not just a jumble of wires and metal. He argues that technology is actually a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies. Kevin Kelly is editor-at-large for *Wired* magazine which he helped to launch in 1993. During his tenure, *Wired* won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence.
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  • Faith and Power: Mideast Religion and Politics

    Thu, May 6, 2010
    Princeton faculty member Bernard Lewis, one of the world's foremost Western scholars on Islam, explains how the different world views held by Christians and Muslims can lead to misunderstanding.
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  • EU: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name

    Thu, Oct 14, 2010
    Looking back over the last decade, Timothy Garton Ash catalogues the challenges facing the EU--the economy, a united foreign policy, the integration of Muslims--and concludes that despite its problems the union has taken important steps forward. Timothy Garton Ash is professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford.
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