Re-centering Ethics: Finding a Path Forward in a Fragmented World
How does ethics shape the way we understand and respond to the defining challenges of our time? For Global Ethics Day 2026 , experts from ac...
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Cooperation Against All Odds: Transnational Networks and the Future of Global Order
How do we explain breakthroughs in international cooperation that seem to defy the odds, especially during periods of great power competitio...
State Sovereignty in the Age of AI
AI is having a seismic impact on how states interact with each other. As the frontier AI labs of the U.S. and China drive innovation forward...
Multilateralism By and For the People
People are rapidly losing faith in multilateral institutions. Heela Rasool-Ayub, co-director of the Power, People, and Planet Initiative at...
Cooperation as a Source of Power
Can cooperation remain a source of influence in an era of growing competition? Velislava Petrova-Chamova, Bulgaria's Minister of Foreign Aff...
Listening to Conflict: Human Experience of War
As new technologies transform the way wars are fought, the ethical and humanitarian stakes of armed conflict continue to evolve. With the ri...
A New Breed of American Oligarch
How has private wealth accumulation by a select few undermined both U.S. democracy and global security? Author and journalist Casey Michel j...
Democracy as a Moral Principle
Freedom House CEO Jamie Fly and Carnegie Council President Joel Rosenthal interrogate why democracy is both a moral and a political principl...
Ethics on Film: Discussion of "The Brink of War"
In this "Ethical Article," Kathleen Egan reviews Michael Russell Gunn's "The Brink of War." She discusses issues related to nuclear ethics i...
Preparing Ethical Leaders in a Fragmented World
What does ethical leadership require in an era of polarization, institutional distrust, and geopolitical upheaval? In this episode of " V al...
The Myth of AI Inevitability
Artificial intelligence is increasingly framed as an unstoppable force that will reshape economies, societies, and even human civilization....
Soft Power in an Era of Nationalism
What makes power endure? University of Bonn's Hendrik W. Ohnesorge explores the relationship between influence, values, and international le...
Hubris and the Fog of War: Unpacking the U.S.-Iran Conflict
Iran and the United States have been adversaries for decades. But caught in the middle are the 92 million Iranians with "90 million opinions...
Democracy in Retreat
In the last twenty years rights and liberties have eroded across more of the world than they have advanced. The cumulative effect is a trans...
Nuclear Ethics
We are walking a fraying nuclear tightrope. Russia, China, and the U.S. are expanding their nuclear capabilities; extended deterrence is str...
Practicing Strategic Empathy and Navigating Competing Values
In a world experiencing a seismic shift in the values and principles that guide geopolitics, how can we practice strategic empathy without s...
Building Moral and Professional Resilience
Gilles Michaud, UN under-secretary-general for safety and security, joins the "Values & Interests" podcast to examine the moral and politica...
U.S. Power and Principle
America's post–World War II calculus guiding the relationship between power and principle has shifted dramatically. The result is a moment i...
The Ethics of AI Agents in Global Governance
The adoption of AI agents is expanding rapidly, particularly within multilateral and diplomatic spaces. Such integration presents a myriad o...
Geopolitics in a Fracturing World, with Aarathi Krishnan
In a fracturing world awash with belligerent rhetoric, where are the real geopolitical pressure points and what forces are driving them? Aar...