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Global Ethics Corner: Why Does the EU Care About Olive Oil? | 05/28/13
A proposed EU ban on the use of dipping bowls and refillable glass bottles of olive oil in restaurants has people asking questions. Is this more useless meddling from the EU bureaucracy? Could the ban help struggling olive oil-producing states? Is there more to this story?
Why Dictators Don't Like Jokes | 04/09/13
Srdja Popovic,
Mladen Joksic
Pro-democracy activists around the world are discovering that humor is one of the most powerful weapons in the fight against authoritarianism.
Global Ethics Corner: Which Separatist Movements Will Succeed? | 12/10/12
From Spain to Scotland to even the United States, separatist movements are making headlines. Do any of these have a chance to succeed? Or all they just for show?
Why and How the Euro Zone Crisis Will Be Solved | 10/24/12
Jacob Funk Kirkegaard,
Julian Harper
Danish economist Jacob Funk Kirkegaard offers a contrarian take on the euro zone crisis. While he notes that there are political problems within the European Union, he argues that the crisis is an opportunity from which Europe will emerge more integrated and resilient.
The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century | 06/21/12
Carne Ross
Countries the world over are suffering from a deficit of democracy, says Carne Ross, and it's not enough just to protest and/or tinker with the existing system. Radical change is needed. We, the people, must take on the burden of governing ourselves.
Planet Money Tells the Story of Sovereign Debt | 04/24/12
Zoe Chace,
Caitlin Kenney
How can you explain the European debt crisis so that ordinary Americans can understand--and what's more, care? Through interviews and story-telling techniques, these two NPR reporters show us that it's actually a long-drawn-out love story.
Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America | 03/06/12
Enrique Krauze,
Joanne J. Myers
Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Gabriel Marcia Marquez, Octavio Paz, and many more: Krauze discusses Latin America's intellectual, literary, and political figures who were inspired by revolutionary ideas, and hopes that his book will be "a requiem for the Latin American passionate revolution."
Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America | 02/29/12
Enrique Krauze,
Joanne J. Myers
Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Gabriel Marcia Marquez, Octavio Paz, and many more: Krauze discusses Latin America's intellectual, literary, and political figures who were inspired by revolutionary ideas, and hopes that his book will be "a requiem for the Latin American passionate revolution."
Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America | 02/29/12
Enrique Krauze,
Joanne J. Myers
Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Gabriel Marcia Marquez, Octavio Paz, and many more: Krauze discusses Latin America's intellectual, literary, and political figures who were inspired by revolutionary ideas, and hopes that his book will be "a requiem for the Latin American passionate revolution."
The Varieties of Protest Experience: How Accountability Gaps Link the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street | 02/08/12
Zach Dorfman
Can the recent eruption of protests be interpreted as a single phenomenon, even though spread out across great distances and separated by barriers of language and culture? Can we locate a common strand of thought or purpose that binds them together?
Global Ethics Corner: Goodbye Euro? | 12/02/11
The euro was once thought to be a symbol of peace and prosperity in post-World War II Europe. As the sovereign debt crisis continues, are we watching the end of this currency and, more ominously, a unified Europe?
Global Ethics Corner: Goodbye Euro? | 12/02/11
The euro was once thought to be a symbol of peace and prosperity in post-World War II Europe. As the sovereign debt crisis continues, are we watching the end of this currency and, more ominously, a unified Europe?
Global Ethics Corner: Goodbye Euro? | 12/02/11
The euro was once thought to be a symbol of peace and prosperity in post-World War II Europe. As the sovereign debt crisis continues, are we watching the end of this currency and, more ominously, a unified Europe?
Negotiating with Evil: When to Talk to Terrorists | 04/20/11
Mitchell B. Reiss
When, how, and under what conditions should governments talk to terrorists? Can opening a dialogue bring conflicts to a faster resolution?
Negotiating with Evil: When to Talk to Terrorists | 12/13/10
Mitchell B. Reiss
When, how, and under what conditions should governments talk to terrorists? Can opening a dialogue bring conflicts to a faster resolution?
Negotiating with Evil: When to Talk to Terrorists | 12/08/10
Mitchell B. Reiss,
Joanne J. Myers
When, how, and under what conditions should governments talk to terrorists? Can opening a dialogue bring conflicts to a faster resolution?
Carnegie Council Announces the Publication of "Teaching the Violent Past" edited by Elizabeth Cole | 09/21/07
Elizabeth A. Cole
How does a society deal with a violent past? This question is answered in the
edited volume "Teaching the Violent Past", which examines the politics of how history is taught and the making of national
identities and national memories following a conflict within a society.
Democratic Development and Reckoning with the Past: The Case of Spain in Comparative Context | 06/25/03
Carolyn Boyd,
David A. Crocker,
Elizabeth A. Cole
Boyd and Crocker discuss Spain as a case study of the problems raised by the process of development and democratization in a country that must also contend with a difficult past.
Democratic Development and Reckoning with the Past: The Case of Spain in Comparative Context | 05/28/03
What form does the Spanish collective memory about the civil war take today, and how can we assess the Spanish attempt to reckon with the past in light of the nation's successful transition to a modern European democracy? At this workshop, presentations by Carolyn Boyd and David Crocker explore these issues against the backdrop of Spanish history.
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