Michael Ignatieff is a Canadian writer, teacher, and former politician. He is president and rector of Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.
Previously, Ignatieff was Edward R. Murrow Professor of the Practice of the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He also served in the Parliament of Canada and was leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
His books include The Needs of Strangers (1984), Scar Tissue (1992), Blood and Belonging, (1993), The Warrior's Honour (1997), Isaiah Berlin (1998), The Rights Revolution (2000), Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (2001), The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (2004), and Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics (2013).
He was the Carnegie-Uehiro Centennial Chair for Carnegie Council's 2014 Centennial. For more on the Council's Centennial projects, click here.
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JAN 23, 2004 • Transcript
The Lesser Evil: Hard Choices in a War on Terror
Ignatieff says that while the battle against terrorism may sometimes require infringing international norms on the use of force, we must constantly guard against slipping ...
NOV 2, 2001 • Transcript
Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry
Human rights scholar Michael Ignatieff happened to be in Kabul when the Taliban came to power. He has never forgotten his conversations with Afghan women ...