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Cyber Resilience in an Age of Climate Chaos
Although both cybersecurity and climate change are increasingly seen as two of the most urgent threats of this century, seldom are they considered together. Yet, arguably, the true challenge of both is the ways in which they intertwine, in evermore unexpected ways.
Bill Burns and Narratives About U.S. Foreign Policy
Bill Burns, noted diplomat and now president of the Carnegie Endowment, parallels the work of the U.S. Global Engagement project in his assessment in The Atlantic of competing narratives for the future–and agrees with my assessment that this 2020 election represents a choice between different visions for the future. He writes: We still get a […]
The Persistence of the Trump Narrative?
Trump Apres Trump
One of the goals of the U.S. global engagement project has been to focus attention on different foreign policy narratives that move within U.S. domestic politics. The 2016 elections brought to the fore tendencies that had been assumed to be on the fringe in U.S. foreign policy (retrenchment, transactionalism, withdrawal). As I have noted on […]
EIA Fall 2020 Remote Editorial Internship
Ethics & International Affairs, the journal of the Carnegie Council, seeks a remote volunteer intern for the fall semester.
Difficult Ethical Choices on China
Andrew Sullivan pulls no punches: It’s time we treated China as the rogue dictatorship it is. When a totalitarian nation is enacting genocide, has a dictator for life, is showing itself to be a health menace to humankind, has crushed an island of democracy it pledged to protect, and is militarily acting out against its […]
Where Do Human Rights Fit In?
Policy Narratives Re-examined
Nahal Toosi has a fascinating read in Politico about a subtle but major shift in the international landscape: human rights groups focusing on the United States’s human rights record. While there has always been criticism of America’s shortcomings in living up to its own self-professed standards (as well as the terms of international treaties signed […]
The Breonna Taylor/George Floyd Narrative?
Impacts on U.S. Foreign Policy and International Standing
If the Covid-19 pandemic has called into question America’s role as leader of the world community of nations, will the killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd by law enforcement personnel–and the subsequent protests and demonstrations that have resulted, both in the United States and around the world–have an impact on U.S. foreign policy? In […]
Vox Populi: After the Event
This past week, the Carnegie Council (virtually) hosted Mark Hannah of the Eurasia Group Foundation and Dina Smeltz of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs to discuss what Americans think about foreign policy and how this relates to the forthcoming election. The “Vox Populi” discussion reiterated earlier themes that policymakers and politicians must, as Smeltz […]
