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Ethics
& International Affairs Vol. 19.3 (Fall 2005)

Including articles on just cause for war, distinguishing combatants
and noncombatants, the ironic consequences of environmentalism,
and an essay on coming to terms with Iraq.

To order or subscribe, please go to Blackwell Publishing.

Coming Soon

Forging
Environmentalism:
Justice, Livelihood, and Contested Environments

Joanne Bauer, ed.

Through a combination of case studies and comparative analysis, the contributors focus on four environmentally significant countries—China, Japan, India, and the United States—and provide direction on what can be done to secure public support for and trust in environmental policies. Due out in early 2006.

Most Viewed Resources

Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East

Clyde Prestowitz

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

Jeffrey Sachs

Shake Hands with the Devil: The failure of Humanity in Rwanda

Lt. Gen. Roméo A. Dallaire

Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco

David L. Phillips

International Obligation and Human Health: Evolving Policy Responses to HIV/AIDS

Paul G. Harris and Patricia Siplon

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NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Have You Seen Our New Ongoing Series?

• The Resurgence of Religion in Politics


• American Military Power


• A Fairer Globalization

Launched in September, these three new series are now well underway. Click on the above links to read transcripts of events so far, which include talks on the new "energy-directed weapons" which will soon transform the nature of warfare; the highly secretive Opus Dei; and exciting plans for laptops costing a mere $100, cheap enough so that every child in the world could be provided with one.

These series will continue through 2006. Please continue to check our web calendar for future events.

Free "Dove" Poster (18"x24")

Thanks to those of you who complimented our poster introducing the Fall 2005 Ethics Lectures. New posters are on the way, so check back with us in early spring 2006.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CARNEGIE COUNCIL

Ending Tyranny in Iraq: a Debate

To mark the launch of the Ethics & International Affairs special issue on ethics and the use of force after Iraq, the Council hosted a debate on whether or not the war qualified as a humanitarian intervention. Yes, argued Professor Fernando Tesón of Florida State University College of Law. What's important is that it rid the world of a dictator. No, said Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch, and trying to justify it in humanitarian terms has given intervention a bad name.

Go to Ethics and International Affairs (Vol 19 No 2, Summer 2005) complete Table of Contents.

Is a Fairer Globalization Possible?

Globalization has brought about more opportunities for people worldwide but also more economic, social and political disparities, including rising inequality within and between nations. To address these issues, the Council and the New York Society for Ethical Culture sponsored a public forum with panelists Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland; Turkish politician and economist Kemal Dervis; and Stephen Macedo of Princeton. Together with moderator Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs managing editor, they outlined the problems and proposed practical solutions.

"A Threat to One is a Threat to All": Nonstate Actors, Collective Security, and the Reform of the UN

This Ethics and International Affairs roundtable brought together Ambassador Nirupam Sen, Permanent Representative of India to the UN; Ambassador Nancy Soderberg, Senior Policy Advisor for the International Crisis Group; Professor Robert O. Keohane, Princeton University, and Bruce Jones, New York University. Their topic was the ethics of the new collective security. What constitutes a "global threat" from a nonstate actor, and who gets to define it? Which principles should be upheld in dealing with nonstate actors? And how might international institutions such as the United Nations be reformed to meet such threats?

RECOMMENDED READING ON GLOBAL HEALTH ISSUES

Rx for Survival: Why We Must Rise to the Global Health Challenge

The emergence of new diseases and the resurgence of old ones have put the world on the brink of a global health crisis, warns Philip Hilts. Yet we have the technology and the money—and less of both are needed than many people realize—to bring about a new golden age of public health. In a post-talk discussion, the Carnegie Council audience raised everything from avian flu to the role of terrorist groups in health care.

Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases

Each year, nearly six million people in the developing world die of malaria, TB, and HIV/AIDS. Yet of the $70 billion spent annually on pharmaceutical R & D, only about 10 percent goes towards such diseases. Michael Kremer and Rachel Glennerster propose an incentive scheme to make it financially rewarding for pharmaceutical companies to work on treatments for diseases primarily affecting the poor. However, says book reviewer REKHA NATH, "While vaccines are appealing, they are certainly not sufficient to eradicate the disease burden in the developing world."