Events

Carnegie Ethics Fellows Symposium

October 15, 8:30am ET, Virtual

Over two years, our Carnegie Ethics Fellows have been meeting with professionals across the international affairs field to learn about ethical decision-making and become examples of values-driven responsible leadership. The Fellows have also been working on group projects around emerging ethical issues: water ethics, AI in healthcare, ethics of economic and national security, and the ethics of AI in humanitarian response. 

For their culminating experience, the Fellows will host the Carnegie Ethics Fellows Symposium. This convening will feature four 60-minute panels with experts working on these topics.

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Cooperation Against All Odds: Transnational Networks and the Future of Global Order

October 20, 5:30pm ET, Virtual

How do we explain breakthroughs in international cooperation that seem to defy the odds, especially during periods of geopolitical tension? This event showcases insights from “Transnational Political Networks and the Future of Global Order,” a multi-year research initiative funded by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation and led by Northeastern University’s Professor Mai'a K. Davis Cross.

Join us for this convening, which will bring together five key contributors to the project for a focused panel conversation that will run counter to geopolitical pessimism.

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Re-centering Ethics: Finding a Path Forward in a Fragmented World

October 21, 8:30am ET, Virtual

How does ethics shape the way we understand and respond to the defining challenges of our time? For Global Ethics Day 2026, experts from across disciplines will convene to examine what it means to re-center ethics in a fragmented and rapidly changing world.

The discussion will span finance and governance, climate change, the impact of emerging technologies, and more. It will feature a 60-minute panel discussion and audience Q&A.

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Getting China Right: The Ultimate Moral Dilemma

October 29, 6:00pm ET, Virtual

Whether misjudging the outcome of the Chinese Civil War in the 1940s or expecting that membership in the WTO would encourage a shift toward democracy, the U.S. has a long history of misreading China. Today, the stakes are higher. Similar miscalculations could carry consequences on the scale of World War I.

Join us for the Charles W. Kegley, Jr. Annual Lecture, with bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, who has spent decades studying and reporting on China and East Asian geopolitics.

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Hans Morgenthau and the Enduring Value of Realism

November 10, 6:00pm ET, Virtual

In The Realist: Hans Morgenthau and the Purpose of American Power, the first full-scale biography of the political thinker, David Sacks explores how the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism shaped Morgenthau’s understanding of world affairs.

Please join us for a conversation between Sacks and Carnegie Council President Joel Rosenthal, whose own book Righteous Realists examined how Morgenthau and other postwar realists confronted the ethical questions of the nuclear age.

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The New Nuclear Weapons Debate

November 12, 6:00pm ET, Virtual

We are living in a world without a single treaty limiting the number of strategic nuclear weapons—the threat of proliferation is again at our doorstep. Are we in a new nuclear arms race? What is distinct about this strategic nuclear environment?

Join us for this Ethics Empowered: Leadership in Practice convening on the new debate around nuclear weapons. This event will be moderated by Kathleen Egan, Carnegie Council’s senior program associate and nuclear ethics programming lead.

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