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Upcoming Events
May highlights include:
The Rise and Fall of the Islamic State
Noah Feldman
Today's popular Islamist movements call for the establishment of shari'a as a crucial plank in their political platform. But will this call help the Islamic state succeed?
Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy
Michael T. Klare
How are the world's diminishing sources of energy radically changing the international balance of power?
Olympic Mettle: Business, Civil Society, and Politics During the Beijing Games
Ian Buruma, Robert Corcoran, Thomas Crampton, Qi Qianjin, Minky Worden
This Workshop for Ethics in Business luncheon panel will focus on the ethics of engagement with China in the context of the Olympics.
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 Recent Popular Articles from Policy Innovations Online Magazine
Russia Switches on Gas
As Europe moves to burn cleaner energy, Russia is switching to coal for its domestic market, writes Warren Wilczewski.
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Recent growth in sub-Saharan Africa is threatened by instability in the region's pillar countries and the risk of evaporating remittances during a global slowdown, writes Ian Bremmer.
More Loraxes, Less Axes
Deforestation accounts for about 20 percent of global warming emissions, making innovative conservation a key factor in any climate strategy, writes Evan O’Neil.
GPI Event:
Workshops for Ethics in Business
Cyberethics: The Emerging Codes of Online Conduct
Listen to a panel of experts on old and new media, ranging from newspapers to blogs and Second Life, as they explore the codes of online conduct that are emerging as new media gains more influence in political and business affairs.
Just Released
 Ethics & International Affairs, Spring 2008,
Vol 22.1
This issue includes a special report by Philip Coyle and Victoria Samson on proposed U.S. missile defenses in Europe; Mathias Risse on the morality of immigration; Richard B. Miller on justifications of the Iraq War; and much more.
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WHAT'S NEW
COUNCIL LAUNCHES PILOT PROJECT, APPOINTS WILLIAM VOCKE
Dr. William C. Vocke, Jr. has been appointed Senior Fellow and Senior Program Director. He is responsible for developing new partnerships and educational materials for the Carnegie Ethics Studio project.
The vision of the Ethics Studio is "a global, interactive network sharing content and discourse" on international policy issues. We invite universities, secondary schools, and public education programs around the world to join in shaping the parameters underlying our expectations about international policy.
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COUNCIL RECEIVES GOOGLE GRANTS AWARD
The Council is pleased to announce that it has been selected for a Google Grants Award. This enables us to create Google ad campaigns and gives us a daily budget to spend on keywords. When people search on Google using one of these keywords, our ad may appear next to the search results. This will help us get our message out to all those Google users interested in ethics and international affairs.
RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
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 EMPIRE OF LIES: THE TRUTH ABOUT CHINA IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
"There are not six million Tibetans in China," says Guy Sorman. "There are one billion." If the many Chinese who are not beneficiaries of economic development could express themselves, they would say the same things as the Tibetans do.
- THE CONSCIENCE OF A LIBERAL
Paul Krugman analyses America's economic history over the last eight decades and asks: How can we reclaim the relationship between America's government and its citizens? What will it take to achieve a new New Deal? Krugman’s talk includes comments on the current financial crisis and his doubts about Barack Obama's chances.
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND NEW SECURITY ISSUES
H.E. Dr. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, President of Iceland, discusses how Iceland has successfully reduced its use of oil and coal, and how the fate of nations large and small is being affected by climate change.
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 A BILLION LIVES: AN EYEWITNESS REPORT FROM THE FRONTLINES OF HUMANITY
"In spite of being stingy, and in spite of being late, and in spite of being half-hearted, we are making progress," says Jan Egeland, former UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. But we must respond to all disasters, not just those that hit the headlines.
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THE NEW ASIAN HEMISPHERE: THE IRRESISTIBLE SHIFT OF GLOBAL POWER TO THE EAST
Western dominance is waning, says Kishore Mahbubani, and Asia has adopted many Western best practices, from meritocracy to free-market economics. Therefore it's high time that the West gives up its domination of global institutions, from the IMF to the UN Security Council.
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