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What makes power endure? University of Bonn's Hendrik W. Ohnesorge explores the relationship between influence, values, and international leadership, arguing that attraction and legitimacy often ou...

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In the last twenty years rights and liberties have eroded across more of the world than they have advanced. The cumulative effect is a transformed international order in which authoritarian governm...

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We are walking a fraying nuclear tightrope. Russia, China, and the U.S. are expanding their nuclear capabilities; extended deterrence is strained to the breaking point; and proliferation among midd...

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In a world experiencing a seismic shift in the values and principles that guide geopolitics, how can we practice strategic empathy without succumbing to moral relativism? Brian Wong, assistant pro...

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We are walking a fraying nuclear tightrope. Russia, China, and the U.S. are expanding their nuclear capabilities; extended deterrence is strained to the breaking point; and proliferation among midd...

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Gilles Michaud, UN under-secretary-general for safety and security, joins the "Values & Interests" podcast to examine the moral and political challenges facing UN personnel in some of the world’s

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America’s post–World War II calculus guiding the relationship between power and principle has shifted dramatically. The result is a moment in which U.S. leaders may no longer be asking a vital ques...

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America’s post–World War II calculus guiding the relationship between power and principle has shifted dramatically. The result is a moment in which U.S. leaders may no longer be asking a vital ques...

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The adoption of AI agents is expanding rapidly, particularly within multilateral and diplomatic spaces. Such integration presents a myriad of new ethical questions and challenges for both the pract...

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In a fracturing world awash with belligerent rhetoric, where are the real geopolitical pressure points and what forces are driving them? Aarathi Krishnan, CEO of Raksha Intelligence Futures, joins ...

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Harvard's Professor Mathias Risse discusses Trump’s gaslighting and its political impact. Subscribe to “Carnegie Council” wherever you stream your podcasts. Access the episode: https://carnegieco...

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What is fueling the post-truth era in American politics, and why is it working? Professor Mathias Risse of the Harvard Kennedy School argues that "gaslighting"—"persuasion through systematic besmi...

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The adoption of AI agents is expanding rapidly, particularly within multilateral and diplomatic spaces. Such integration presents a myriad of new ethical questions and challenges for both the pract...

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On the "Values & Interests" podcast, Professor Paul Poast argues that the militarism of the Trump administration is far from realism. Subscribe to “Carnegie Council” wherever you stream your podc

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How can we rebuild trust and reinvigorate values-based leadership amid domestic and geopolitical upheaval? U.S. Army Lt. General (ret.) Mark Hertling visits Carnegie Council to discuss the state o...

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Since the establishment of the Outer Space Treaty in 1967, space has been understood to be a “global commons” in which no country has sovereignty. But today, with over 90 countries and dozens of pr...

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Realism—the international relations theory centered on power, national interests, and anarchy—is having a political moment. From the halls of the Munich Security Conference to the pages of the U.S....

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West Point’s Professor Scott Silverstone discusses the misunderstood British historian E. H. Carr, the origins of international relations as a field of study, and why utopianism is necessary to bal...

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Asha Castlebery-Hernandez discusses how we might secure just peace at moment of significant geopolitical upheaval. For more, please go to: https://carnegiecouncil.co/ethics-empowered-just-peace

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West Point’s Professor Scott Silverstone says the older generations have an ethical responsibility to carry on the memory of the world wars in first half of the 20th century. For more, please go ...

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