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Upcoming Events
 Highlights include Nicholas Negroponte, on enabling the next 2 billion people to go digital.
> View our 2005 Fall Mailer of Events [PDF]
New Publications
 Ethics & International Affairs Vol. 19.2
Special Issue On Ethics and the Use of Force After Iraq
Featuring discussions on intervention and governing the preventive use of force, including articles by Fernando R. Tesón, Terry Nardin and more.
 A Study Guide to the Four Freedoms
This provocative booklet explores the fundamental principles of America's foreign policy.
Most Viewed Resources
The World is Flat
Thomas Friedman
The End of Poverty
Jeffrey Sachs
The New American Militarism Conversation with Andrew Bacevich
Three Challenges for the Human Rights Movement: Darfur, Abu Ghraib, and the Role of the UN
Kenneth Roth
Globalization: What's New?
William Easterly, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Michael M. Weinstein
Enjoy the Benefits of the Carnegie Council
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 PRESIDENT'S NOTE
Welcome to the first newsletter of our 2005-06 program year, which links you to our upcoming events and the pick of our latest online resources. This is an exciting time, as we move ahead with a series of new initiatives. Thank you for your support! We look forward to your feedback.
Joel H. Rosenthal
President
NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Major Relaunch for the Carnegie Council
After over a year of planning, the Council is introducing new programs with new formats.
Building on our work of many years, we are now focusing on two broad themes: Ethics, War, and Peace and Global Social Justice. Our aim is to inspire and guide ethical debate on these issues in the academic and policy communities. We insist on ethical reflection as part of policy debate, find positive examples, showcase the most thoughtful people, and promote creative ideas.
New Series
The Council's new programs include a number of series that will be ongoing throughout the program year. Click on these links to learn more:
The Resurgence of Religion in Politics
American Military Power: An Ethical Inquiry
A Fairer Globalization
New Publisher for Ethics & International Affairs
Journal E&IA is going to a new quarterly format, beginning in 2006. Circulation and distribution will now be handled through Blackwell Publishing, the premier company in journal marketing. Journal contents will be available through subscription and online.
Exclusive Membership Benefit: CDs and DVDs
Many of the world's most influential thinkers come to the Council. As a complimentary benefit of membership, we are creating a special series featuring Council talks and debates, each focusing on a particular theme. The first will be a set of CD-Roms on globalization, featuring Jagdish Bhagwati, Lou Dobbs, Thomas Friedman, and Clyde Prestowitz. Watch your mailbox!
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CARNEGIE COUNCIL
Global Responsibilities: How Can Multinational Corporations Deliver on Human Rights?
Peter Singer and Andrew Kuper explore various practical ways to influence corporations' behavior, focusing on a responsibilities approach to human rights.
Genocide and its Aftermath: Bosnia and Herzogovina 10 years after the Srebrenica Massacre
At an affecting memorial event held at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, a panel gathers not only to remember and mourn, but also to explore the challenges of and strategies for reconciliation.
The Question of Torture
A distinguished panel, including journalist Mark Danner, explore the practical, moral, legal, historical and psychological aspects of torture and debate whether it is ever acceptable, as in "the ticking bomb" scenario.
RECOMMENDED READING
 Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground
Journalist Robert Kaplan reports on how small, specialized groups of American forces around the world are changing the way the army operates. What does this mean for the future, both at home and abroad?
FURTHER READINGS
The Cube and the Cathedral
Author George Weigel ponders the growing—and to him acutely disturbing—secularity of Europe, which he believes raises urgent questions about the future of democracy worldwide.
Radical Truths of Christian Realism
In a stirring talk, Elisabeth Sifton, daughter of theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, reviews her father's legacy and concludes that many of today's Christian leaders are ignoring the radical truths he espoused.
Neverending Wars: The International Community, Weak States, and the Perpetuation of Civil War
By Ann Hironaka
"It is about time someone reminded us that civil wars are not an entirely internal affair, that the international environment in which they occur matters too," says book reviewer Caty Clément.
Squandered Victory
After a recent visit, Larry Diamond reflects sadly on what has gone wrong in Iraq, which we have allowed, he says, "to slip into a state of severe insecurity, stalemate, and economic disarray."
Evangelical Reflections On the U.S. Role In the World
Luis Lugo, Allen D. Hertzke, and the Reverend Richard Cizek discuss the growing importance of religious groups in advancing international human rights causes, from the Sudan to Korea.
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