FEB 3, 2023 • Article
"Forced Migrants," Human Rights, and "Climate Refugees"
Senior Fellow Michael Doyle explores arguments for assistance and asylum that those who are driven by climate to cross international borders can and should claim.
FEB 1, 2023 • Podcast
Sanctions Loopholes, Rerouting Trade, & Russia's War Machine, with Rachel Ziemba
Leading up to the one-year anniversary of Russia's second invasion of Ukraine, Rachel Ziemba, head of Ziemba Insights and adjunct senior fellow at the Center ...
FEB 1, 2023 • Article
Ethics on Film: Discussion of "Avatar: The Way of Water"
Read a synopsis of James Cameron's "Avatar: The Way of Water" with a discussion of ethical issues in the film related to colonialism, cultural appropriation ...
JAN 26, 2023 • Article
Is the West at "war" with Russia?
What does it mean precisely when German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says that the Euro-Atlantic community finds itself at "war” with Russia in Ukraine? Senior ...
JAN 25, 2023 • News
The Economist: "Wi-Fi signals could prove useful for spies"
In this article for "The Economist," Senior Fellow Arthur Holland Michel writes about experiments by a team at Carnegie Mellon that demonstrated how Wi-Fi signals ...
JAN 24, 2023 • Article
Now is the Moment for a Systemic Reset of AI and Technology Governance
How can we ensure that the technologies currently being developed are used for the common good, rather than for the benefit of a select few? ...
JAN 19, 2023 • Podcast
Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations, with Christopher McKnight Nichols
From racialized notions of subjecthood and civilization in the 18th century to the neoconservatism, neoliberalism, and unilateralism of the 21st century, ideology drives American foreign ...
JAN 18, 2023 • Key Term
Autocracy vs. democracy
In short, governing power in an autocracy is concentrated around one individual whereas democracies grant governing authority to the people or to governing officials through ...