Values & Interests: Democracy as a Moral Principle
September 10, 6:00pm ET, Virtual
Register for the latest event in our Values & Interests series featuring a fireside chat and Q&A between Freedom House CEO Jamie Fly and Carnegie Council President Joel Rosenthal.
Together, Rosenthal and Fly will interrogate why democracy is both a moral and a political principle, the regression of freedom globally, and what can be done to counter the rise of authoritarian and anti-democratic forces.
Listening to Conflict: Human Experience of War
September 24, 8:30am ET, Virtual
As new technologies transform the way wars are fought, the ethical and humanitarian stakes of armed conflict continue to evolve. With the rise of cyber and hybrid warfare, what has been lost in ethical thinking about war as it moves further away from human experience?
Join us for this Ethics Empowered: Leadership in Practice event, moderated by Adam Read-Brown, Carnegie Council’s executive editor and director of journal programming.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Past Events
Nuclear Ethics
This expert panel and Q&A, held in partnership with PBS, was moderated by acclaimed journalist Ann Curry as part of Carnegie Council's keynote public affairs series, "Values & Interests."
U.S. Power and Principle
In this "Values & Interests" event, James Story, former U.S. ambassador to Venezuela, and Carnegie Council President Joel Rosenthal discuss the shifting dynamics in American foreign policy.
The Ethics of AI Agents in Global Governance
In this "Ethics Empowered: Leadership in Practice" event, an expert panel discusses the ethical questions and challenges of AI agents in diplomatic and multilateral spaces.
Why Space Matters and How to Govern It
In this "Ethics Empowered: Leadership in Practice" convening, an expert panel grapples with ethical questions on governance, militarization, and emerging technology in space.
The Ethics of Decision-Making in National Security
Avril D. Haines, former director of national intelligence, offered insights into the importance of values, how to defend ethical norms, and pathways for next-gen leaders.
Re-examining our Capacity for Just Peace
Amidst a geopolitical environment of regional wars, frozen conflicts, and the deployment of new military technologies, experts discuss the obstacles to achieving just peace in 2025.
Geopolitics in an Era of AGI
In this "Values & Interests" event, an expert panel interrogates significant questions regarding the impact of artificial general intelligence on actors operating within the international system.
Addressing Climate Migration & Considerations for the Future
In this event from our "Ethics Empowered: Leadership in Practice" series, a panel examined questions around climate migration, a distinct global-scale challenge that goes to the heart of the moral case for both sovereignty and human rights.
Re-envisioning Humanitarianism for a Changing World
In the Global Ethics Day 2025 keynote event, an expert panel discussed the present and future of humanitarian aid, in this challenging political environment.
The Fracturing of Democratic Institutions & the Variations of Autocracy
In this pre-Global Ethics Day event, leading scholar practitioners grapple with critical questions regarding the future of democracy.
Post-Liberal American Power
In the first event in Carnegie Council's "Values & Interests" series, an expert panel discusses how Trump 2.0 has shattered long-held assumptions about American values and its interests on the world stage.
Advancing Global Health in a Moment of Fracturing Partnerships
In this event from our "Ethics Empowered: Leadership in Practice" series, practitioners examined the impact of today's geopolitical environment on the future of public health.
The State of Migration in 2025
This event examined the state of migration in 2025 at the international & local levels, featuring discussions led by Senior Fellow Michael Doyle and journalist Molly O'Toole.
Unlocking Cooperation: Space Diplomacy
In this event, Northeastern University’s Ethics Institute partnered with Carnegie Council to host a convening on the future of international space governance, security, diplomacy, and sustainability.
Moral Dilemmas and Political Tradeoffs in Peacekeeping Operations
In the first event in our "Ethics Empowered: Leadership in Practice" series, practitioners grapple with critical questions for UN peacekeeping, now and in the future.
Unlocking Cooperation: Open Societies
In this Unlocking Cooperation event, panelists discussed how democratic states can enhance multilateral cooperation to more proactively counter authoritarian efforts to erode freedom.
Empowering Next-Gen Civic Leaders
The keynote event for Global Ethics Day 2024 featured a panel discussion on how we might enhance youth participation and intergenerational collaboration in civic life.
Unlocking Cooperation: AI for All
On the eve of the Summit of the Future, Carnegie Council & UNU-CPR hosted a special event exploring the implications of AI for the multilateral system.
Global Leadership in a Turbulent Time: A Conversation with Professor Abiodun Williams
In this roundtable discussion, Tufts University's Professor Abiodun Williams speaks about the essential leadership traits needed to drive institutional change.
Unlocking Cooperation: Climate Change and Human Mobility
On World Refugee Day, Carnegie Council hosted a discussion on enhancing multilateral cooperation at the intersection of climate change and human mobility.
Unlocking Cooperation: The Global South and Global North
In the inaugural panel of the "Unlocking Cooperation" series, Ramu Damodaran leads a discussion on forging a path forward for Global South/North collaboration.
A Carnegie Council Conversation with the UK Home Secretary
In this speech, the UK Home Secretary outlined the range of opportunities and challenges faced by countries as a consequence of migration.
Human Rights, Security, & the Helsinki Legacy: A Discussion with Peter Osnos
This Carnegie Council special event features a roundtable conversation with author Peter Osnos on human rights, security, and the legacy of the Helsinki Accords.
Unlocking Cooperation: A Global Ethics Day Special Event
In this keynote event for Global Ethics Day 2023, Carnegie Council President Joel Rosenthal led a conversation on how we can all create the conditions for enhanced cooperation.
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