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![Admiral Rickover descends into the circular nuclear reactor shell at the Shippingport Power Facility. Courtesy of LIFE magazine, via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Admiral_Rickover_descends_into_the_nuclear_reactor_shell_at_the_Shippingport_Power_Facility_(14492227730).jpg">Wikipedia</a>..](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/Admiral_Rickover_2023-04-10-055713_rtrw.jpg?v=1721240711)
MAY 12, 1982 • Article
Morgenthau Lectures (1981–2006): Thoughts on Man's Purpose in Life
"I do not claim to have a magic answer, but I believe there are some basic principles of existence, propounded by thinkers through the ages, ...
DEC 12, 1981 • Article
Morgenthau Lectures (1981–2006): Power and Morality in Global Transformation
Famed Indonesian intellectual Soedjatmoko says that the time has come for man to "develop the international legal infrastructure that will enable us to manage our ...
![U.S.S.R. summary map, 1968. CREDIT: <a href=https://www.loc.gov/resource/g7000.ct002923/">Library of Congress</a>](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/16698/USSR-1968_2023-03-03-053040_nsju.jpg?v=1721237239)
JUL 1, 1981 • Article
Russia's Nightmare Joke--and Daytime Reality
"What if, today, the last great empire on earth were nothing more than a fiction trying its best to convince both itself and others of ...
![Carlos Fuentes by D. F. Bach](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/Carlos-Fuentes_2023-04-10-055716_tilq.jpg?v=1721237240)
SEP 1, 1980 • Article
Carlos Fuentes on Politics, Language, and Literature
Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's former ambassador to France and famed novelist, short story writer, and essayist, spent the 1979-80 academic year teaching at Princeton. In this ...
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MAY 1, 1980 • Article
Banned in South Africa: A Personal Account
David Russell was a courageous white South African Anglican priest. On October 19, 1977, the government cracked down on the press, organizations, and individuals who fought apartheid. ...
MAR 3, 1979 • Article
Human Rights & Foreign Policy by Hans J. Morgenthau (1979)
In this lecture and symposium, a select group of people joined Hans Morgenthau in a discussion of issues that were central to his presentation: William ...
![Sakya Monastery, Sakya, Tibet. CREDIT: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakya_Monastery#/media/File:Sakya_Monastery,_Sakya,_Tibet.jpg"> Moszczynski</a>](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/Sakya-Monestary_2023-04-10-055722_zuvm.jpg?v=1721237246)
SEP 1, 1978 • Article
When the Chinese Came to Tibet
In this compelling first-hand account, Dowa Norbu explains the Chinese strategies for taking over Tibet. These included co-opting the ruling class, presenting themselves as modernizers ...
![Small boat with 162 Vietnamese refugees sinks just a few meters off the Malaysian coast. Most of the refugees were rescued. <br>CREDIT: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/hfpz2ae">UNHCR/ K.Gaugler</a> December 1978](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/Vietnamese-Boat-People_2023-03-03-053112_vakh.jpg?v=1721237249)
MAY 1, 1978 • Article
"Do Not Forget Us!"
Activist Bayard Rustin reports on meeting Indochinese refugees in Thai camps, who fled their countries in fear of their lives. He exhorts America to open ...
!["No human being, whether in solitude or in mass assembled, should be entirely trusted."](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/MichaelNovak_2023-04-10-055726_aklv.jpg?v=1721237252)
JUL 30, 1977 • Article
An Underpraised and Undervalued System
Novak invokes what he calls the creed of democratic capitalism: "(a) individual freedom and the methods of trial-and-error; (b) the innate selfishness and corruptibility of ...
![Belfast, 2010. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/marcella_bona/7293708950/">Marcella</a> (<a hre="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">CC</a>)](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/TheRedHand.jpg?v=1721237253)
DEC 1, 1976 • Article
The Red Hand of Ulster
Patricia Moir spent the summer of 1975 living in a Protestant housing estate in Belfast, where she organized a recreation program for the children. Her account ...