Explore & Engage

Framing ethical perspectives and engaging with a global audience

Latest Podcasts, Videos, & Articles

JUN 6, 2019 Podcast

Global Ethics Weekly: A Firsthand Account of Electrification in Myanmar, with Christina Madden

Christina Madden, now a director at Criterion Institute, discusses her work on Myanmar's massive electrification project in 2013-2014. With less than one-third of the population ...

Meeting of leaders at the Belt and Road International Forum, May 2017, Beijing. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roundtable_meeting_of_leaders_at_Belt_and_Road_international_forum.jpg"> Russian Presidential Press & Information Office (CC)</a>

JUN 5, 2019 Podcast

China, Surveillance, and "Belt & Road" with Joshua Eisenman

Just back from China, Sinologist (and fluent Mandarin speaker) Joshua Eisenman discusses the pervasive camera surveillance and facial recognition systems there; the omnipresent power of "...

L to R: Henry Farrell, Stephen Del Rosso, Michael Desch. CREDIT: Billy Pickett.

JUN 5, 2019 Podcast

A Debate: Political Science is Lapsing into Irrelevance, with Michael Desch & Henry Farrell

What is the current state of the academic-policy gap and why should we care? What progress has been made in bridging this gap? What more ...

President Erdoğan & President Trump at the White House, May 2017. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/148748355@N05/33875862824"> Shealah Craighead/Public Domain</a>

JUN 3, 2019 Podcast

How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship, with Ece Temelkuran

In her new book, award-winning Turkish novelist and political commentator Ece Temelkuran lays out the seven steps from democracy to dictatorship. "Some of these steps ...

JUN 3, 2019 Article

Emerging Narratives for U.S. Foreign Policy

As we continue to move into the 21st century, the "post-Cold War" designation loses relevance. Yet a new construct and narrative has not emerged to ...