JOEL H. ROSENTHAL
CURRICULUM VITAE
Address: Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 170 East 64th Street New York, NY 10065 212-838-4120 [email protected]
Web Page: www.joelrosenthal.org
Personal Data: Born April 28, 1960; Brookline, MA
Current Positions
President, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Editor-in-Chief, Ethics & International Affairs
Adjunct Professor, Program in International Relations, Department of Politics, New York University
Adjunct Professor and Chairman, Globalization and International Affairs Program, Bard College
Education
Yale University Ph.D. American Studies 1988 M. Phil. 1986, M.A. 1985 Harvard University B.A. History 1982
Fellowships and Prizes
Dorsett Fellow, Dartmouth College 2016
Honorary Doctor of Social Science, University of Edinburgh 2013
Honorary Professor, University of Copenhagen 2010 - 2015
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John Addison Porter Prize, Yale University 1988 For a work of scholarship presented “in such a literary form as to make the product of general human interest”
Institute for the Study of World Politics, Washington, DC Dissertation Year Fellowship 1987-1988
Institute for the Study of World Politics, Washington, DC Dissertation Year Fellowship 1987-1988
John Harvard Scholarship 1979-1982 Awarded for academic achievement of the highest distinction
Publications
Books
Righteous Realists: Political Realism, Responsible Power, and American Culture in the Nuclear Age (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991)
Edited Volumes
Ethics & International Affairs: A Reader 3rd Edition (Georgetown University Press, 2009) with Christian Barry
Ethics and International Relations (Library of Essays in International Relations Series, Ashgate Publishing, 2009) with Ethan B. Kapstein
Ethics of Spying: A Reader for the Intelligence Professional Foreword, (The Scarecrow Press, Inc., January 2005)
Political Theory and International Affairs: Hans J. Morgenthau on Aristotle’s The Politics Foreword, (Praeger Publishers, 2004)
Ethics and the Future of Conflict: Lessons from the 1990s (Prentice Hall, 2003) Co-edited with Anthony F. Lang, Jr. and Albert C. Pierce
Never Again?: The United States and the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide since the Holocaust, Foreword (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, August 21, 2001)
Ethics & International Affairs: A Reader (Georgetown University Press, 1995)
Ethics and Statecraft: The Moral Dimension of International Affairs Foreword (Praeger Publishers, 1995) 3
Ethics & International Affairs Journal, Annual Publication, Volumes IV-XI
Morgenthau Memorial Lecture on Ethics and Foreign Policy Series (including lectures by Zbigniew Brzezinski, William Pfaff, and Amartya Sen)
Louis Nizer Lecture on Ethics and Public Policy Series (including lectures by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Elie Wiesel)
“Ethics in International Affairs: Case Studies for Policy Practitioners,” Series Editor (New York: Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs)
Articles, Chapters, and Reviews
“Democracy as Myth and Fact,” Carnegie Council, www.carnegiecouncil.org September 22, 2015
“Compromise and Rotten Compromises: A Reflection on the Iran Deal,” Carnegie Council, www.carnegiecouncil.org August 20, 2015
“We Have a Plan: From Sarajevo to Baghdad,” Carnegie Council, www.carnegiecouncil.org June 26, 2014
“Peace: What Is It Good For?,” Carnegie Council, www.carnegiecouncil.org September 19, 2012
“Life, Money, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” Carnegie Council, www.carnegiecouncil.org August 19, 2013
“Drones: Legal, Ethical, and Wise?” The Christian Science Monitor, March 5 and March 18, 2013
“Saddam's Pistol, and Yours,” Mercury News, February 11, 2013
“Economic Sanctions,” in Hugh LaFollette ed., International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Wiley February 2013)
“The Last Protestant?” Carnegie Council, www.carnegiecouncil.org, August 24, 2012
“Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism,” Civil Religion, Human Rights and International Relations: Connecting People Across Cultures and Traditions by Helle Porsdam (Edward Elgar Publishers April 28, 2012)
“Joel H. Rosenthal,” in Deen K. Chatterjee ed., Encyclopedia of Global Justice (Springer 2011) 4
“Ethics and International Affairs: A Primer,” www.carnegiecouncil.org, December 2011
“In Search of a Global Ethic,” Bard College, www.carnegiecouncil.org, August 2011
“Can We Succeed Where Carnegie Failed?” The Scotsman, August 20, 2010
“Obama and God,” Carnegie Council, www.carnegiecouncil.org, January 19, 2010
“Revisiting Iran,” The National Interest, March/April 2007
“Accountability: How to Treat Unlawful Combatants,” Carnegie Council, www.carnegiecouncil.org, January 26, 2005
“In Memoriam: James Chace a Tribute from Joel Rosenthal,” InPrint, Carnegie Council Newsletter, November/December 2004
“New Rules for War,” Naval War College Review, Summer/Autumn 2004
“Ask the Candidates--and Ourselves,” Carnegie Council, www.carnegiecouncil.org, August 31, 2004
“From the Margins to the Mainstream: A Blueprint for Ethics and International Affairs,” InPrint, Carnegie Council Newsletter, May 6, 2004
“From Andrew Carnegie to Hans Morgenthau,” InPrint, Carnegie Council Newsletter, March 4, 2004
“Shall We Call It Empire?” InPrint, Carnegie Council Newsletter, September/October 2003
“A New Turn in the New War,” InPrint, Carnegie Council Newsletter, April 22, 2003
“A New Ethical Front,” Foreign Policy, July/August 2002
“The Politics of Moral Absolutes,” InPrint, Carnegie Council Newsletter, May/June 2002
“Cycles of Moral Dialogue,” in Edward Lehman ed., Autonomy and Order (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002)
“Threats Beyond the Headlines,” InPrint, Carnegie Council Newsletter, September/October 2002 5
“The Ethics of the ‘New War,’” InPrint, Carnegie Council Newsletter, September/October 2001
“How Nations Make Peace,” Book Review appearing in Mershon International Studies Review (November 1998)
“Henry Stimson's Clue: Is Progressive Internationalism on the Wane?” World Policy Journal, Fall 1997
“Today's Officer Corps: A Repository of Virtue in an Anarchic World?” Naval War College Review, Autumn 1997
“Ethics” in Bruce W. Jentleson, et. al. Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations (Lakeville, CT: American Reference Publishing Company, 1996)
“Private Convictions and Public Commitments,” World Policy Journal, Summer 1995
“Biography, Ethics and Statecraft,” in Cathal J. Nolan, ed. Ethics and Statecraft: The Moral Dimension of International Affairs (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995)
“Re-thinking the Moral Dimensions of Foreign Policy,” in Charles W. Kegley, Jr., ed. Controversies in International Relations Theory: Realism and the Neoliberal Challenge (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995)
“Fighting the Oxymoron Problem: The Study and Teaching of Ethics and International Affairs,” Forum (New York: St. Martin's Press, Spring 1994)
“Normative Standards and the Problem of Pluralism: Western and Non-Western Values in the New International Society,” Contemporary Philosophy: Philosophic Research, Analysis, and Resolution, September/October, 1993
“Traditions and Values in Politics and Diplomacy,” Book review appearing in Journal of American History (September 1993)
“Global Environmental Change and International Relations,” Book review in Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 22 (Spring 1993)
“Self-Interests and the Common Good: The Problem of Ethical Dualism,” Ethics & International Affairs Newsletter, No. 13 (Fall 1992)
“Looking Forward: Norms for Interdependent Worlds,” Moral Education II, (New York: Carnegie Council/Uehiro Foundation, 1992)
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“World of Our Making: Rules and Rule in Social Theory and International Relations,” Book review in Presidential Studies Quarterly XXI (Spring 1991)
“Ethics in the Common European Home,” Ethics & International Affairs Newsletter, No. 11 (Spring 1991)
“Human Rights and Democratic Values: Ethics at the End of History,” Ethics & International Affairs Newsletter, No. 9 (Spring 1990)
“The Withdrawal from UNESCO: International Organizations and the U.S. Role” Case Study #10, Carnegie Council, 1990
“The Carter Implosion: Jimmy Carter and the Amateur Style of Diplomacy,” Book review in Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 18 (Winter, 1989)
“The Problem of Covert Action for a Democracy,” Ethics & International Affairs Newsletter, No. 8 (Fall 1988)
“George F. Kennan, the Atom and the West: Wise Man as Cultural Critic,” in Contemporary Politics, Rhetoric and Discourse, Kenneth W. Thompson, ed. (University Press of America, 1988)
Popular Multimedia
“Carnegie’s Vision for Peace: WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Interviews Joel Rosenthal,” WNYC, New York, July 31, 2014
“Can a Theocracy Become a Democracy?” Interview by Cindy Mindell, Jewish Ledger, November 30, 2012
“Carnegie Council President Joel Rosenthal on Global Ethics,” KGOU Public Radio, Norman, OK, April 18, 2011
“Rahim Kanani Interviews Joel Rosenthal,” World Affairs Commentary, Huffington Post, March 24, 2011
“Alan Chartock Interviews Carnegie Council President Joel Rosenthal,” WAMC Radio, February 24, 2011
“Joel Rosenthal: Fighting to Keep Alive Carnegie’s Dream of an End to All Wars,” The Scotsman, August 19, 2010
“Week in Review: Afghanistan and Japan,” WorldFocus, PBS, September 4, 2009
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Interview Series, “Political Futures” with Ian Bremmer, Eurasia Group, Carnegie Council, www.carnegiecouncil.org, 2009
“Interview with Joel Rosenthal,” The Current, July 14, 2009
“Pillars of Ethics Interview,” Carnegie Council, www.carnegiecouncil.org, December 16, 2008
Moderator of U.S. Congress Debate between Chris Shays and Diane Farrell, Bridgeport, CT October 2006
“The Many Legacies of Andrew Carnegie” The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, December 19, 2006
Selected Recent Presentations
“Rising Fences: Borders, Migrants, and a New Frontier for Ethics,” Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, January 2016
“Ethics for a Connected World,” New York University, NY, September 2015
“Letter to Andrew Carnegie,” Carnegie UK Trust Centennial Symposium, Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, Scotland, October 2013
“Democracy and Human Rights: Critical Connections,” Third Echenberg Family Conference on Human Rights, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, March 2013
“Looking for Ethics in All the Wrong Places,” The 32nd Annual Lecture, J. Smith Lanier ’50 Distinguished Speaker Series, United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, NY, January 2013
“Peace: What is it Good For?” Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C., December 2012
“From Corruption to Trust,” International Conference on Transparency and the Fight against Corruption, Universidad del Rosario, Cartagena, Colombia, October 2012
“Ethics in Leadership,” Yale World Fellows 2012, September 2012
“The Changing Nature of Conflict,” Andrew Carnegie’s Vision for International Justice Conference, Organized by Yale Law School Global Constitutionalism Seminar 2012 and Centennial of Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Peace Palace, The Hague, August 29-September 1, 2012
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“Ethics and War in Homer’s Iliad,” Maine Humanities Council, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, March 2012
“Common Good and the Crisis of Globalization,” Sixth Annual International Conference on Human Rights, Conflict Resolution, Nonviolence & Peace, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, February 2012
“The Elements of Global Ethics,” The William R. Howell Sr. Second Century Lecture, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, March 30-April 1, 2011
“Chris Brown’s Practical Judgment in International Political Theory: Distinguished Scholar’s Roundtable,” International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, March 2011
“Remarks on Andrew Bacevich’s Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War,” U.S. Naval College, Newport, RI, February 2011
“Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism,” University of Copenhagen, Denmark, October – November, 2010
“Leadership as Practical Ethics,” Third Annual Elenchus Fellowship Address, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT, October 2010
“War and Repentance,” Congregation B’nai Israel, Bridgeport, CT, September 2010
“Is Peace Worth Fighting For?” Festival of Politics, The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2010
“Can a Theocracy Become a Democracy?” St. Bartholomew’s Church, New York, NY, December 2009
“Moral Clarity and US Foreign Policy,” Foreign Affairs Series, Yale Club of New York, NY, September 2009
“Ethics in Three Dimensions,” China Reform Forum Conference, New York, NY, August 2009
“Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism,” Bob Jones Memorial Lecture, Star Island International Affairs Conference, Portsmouth, NH, July 2009
“Fear, Civil Liberties, and the Rule of Law,” Maine Humanities Council, Portland, ME, October 2008
“Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism,” Croft Institute, University of Mississippi, University, MS, April 2008 9
“Pragmatism, War and Peace in Social Thought,” Commentator at organization of American Historians (OAH) Annual Conference, March 2008
“How Moral Can We Get? War, Ethics and U.S. Foreign Policy,” James Clarke Chace Memorial Lecture, Bard College, NY, March 2007
“How Moral Can We Get? Three Tests of Ethics for U.S. Foreign Policy,” The Eisenhower Center for Leadership & Public Policy and Gettysburg College, Washington, DC, October 2006
“Ethical Reflections on the War in Lebanon,” Congregation B’nai Israel, Bridgeport, CT, August 2006
“What Does It Mean to be an American?” Maine Humanities Council Meeting, Carnegie Council, NY, May 2006
“Modern War and Just War,” Book Day, The Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein Upper School, NY, March 2006
“Engaging Disengagement,” Congregation B’nai Israel, Bridgeport, CT, August 2005
“What’s Next: America and the Future of Democracy by Force,” Arts and Ideas Festival, New Haven, CT, June 2005
“Moral Dilemmas in War: The American Experience,” Bar Ilan University, Israel, June 2005
“Potential Changes in the Laws of War,” Naval War College Ethics Conference, Newport, RI, April 2005
“American Power and Justice,” America and the World: Ethical Dimensions to Power Conference, Carnegie Council and Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, March 2005
“Focus on Legitimacy at Home and Abroad,” Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA, February 2005
“The Foreign Policy Agendas of the Presidential Candidates: An Ethical Perspective,” Carnegie Council, NY, September 2004
“Ethical Challenges in the ‘War’ on Terrorism,” Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, February 2004 10
“New Rules for a New War?” 15th Annual Professional Ethics Conference, Naval War College, Annapolis, MD, November 2003
“The Ethics of the New War,” Graduate School of Public and International Relations, University of Pittsburgh, PA, January 2003
“The Politics of Moral Certainty,” American University, Washington, DC, November 2002
“Do Ethics Matter: Modern War and Just War,” Book Day, Horace Mann School, New York City April 2002
“The New Moral Climate for the Use of Force,” U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, June 2001
“The United States: The Moral Nation?” Lecture #6, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, MA, April 2001
“Justice and the World Economy,” Lecture #5, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, MA, March 2001
“Making Peace: Dilemmas of Reconciliation,” Lecture #4, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, MA, February 2001
“Dilemmas of Humanitarian and Peace Operations,” Lecture #3, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, MA, December 2000
“What the Sages Say,” Lecture #2, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, MA, November 2000
“What Constitutes an Ethical Approach to International Affairs?” Lecture #1, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, MA, October 2000
“Willing to Kill But Not to Die? The New Moral Climate for the Use of Force,” American Philosophical Association, 200 Pacific Division Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 2000
“The Clash of Civilizations,” Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, December 1999
“The Dynamism of Ethics,” International Meeting on Ethical Values in World Politics, Oslo, Norway, June 1999
“The Case for Professional Military Ethics,” United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, April 1999 11
“Ethics and International Affairs: An Agenda for the Future,” Conselo Argentino Para Las Relaciones Internacionales (CARI), Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 1999
“Ethics and International Affairs: The Moral Nation: An Agenda for the Future,” World Affairs Council, Reading, PA, April 1999
“Human Rights in the 21st Century: Seven Facts to Consider, Five Questions to Answer,” World Affairs Council of Greater Cincinnati, OH, December 1998
“Commerce vs. Conscience--Do Sanctions Work?” International Affairs Forum Dennos Museum Center and Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, MI, June 1998
“The New Moral Climate for the Use of Force,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies Conference, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, June 1998
“America: The Moral Nation?” Wiley College, Marshall, TX, April 1998
“Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical Dilemmas,” Tufts University, Medford, MA, February 1998
“The Moral Nation,” University of Delaware, Newark, DE, January 1998
“American Exceptionalism and U.S.-Chinese Relations,” College of Foreign Affairs and Shanghai Institute of International Affairs, Beijing, China, May 1997
“Ethics and the Strategy of Sanctions,” National Strategy Forum, Chicago, IL, May 1997
“The Study of Ethics and Its Role in International Affairs,” Connecticut College, New London, CT, April 1996
“Moral Issues and International Relations,” University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, March 1996
“Kenneth W. Thompson: Master of Ethics and International Affairs,” Distinguished Scholar Panel, International Studies Association, San Diego, CA, March 1996
“Today’s Officer Corps: A Repository of Virtue in an Anarchic World?” Cantigny Conference on Professional Military Education Wheaton, IL, March 1996 12
“Thinking Ethically About Peacekeeping and Peacemaking,” NEH Lecture Series, Montclair, NJ, April 1995
“George F. Kennan as Realist and Moralist,” University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, January 1995
“Values and IEWS Projects,” Institute for East-West Studies, New York, January 1995
“Ethics and the Use of Force: Is Just War Theory an Adequate Guide?” International Studies Association, Washington, DC, March 1994
“Ethics and International Affairs as a Field of Study: A History,” Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, New Brunswick, NJ, February 1994
“Democracy and Ethnic Nationalism: Are They Compatible?” The Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, December 1993
“Hard Choices: Moral Commitments and Political Realities After the Cold War,” Merrill House Seminar Series, Carnegie Council, New York, NY, November 1993
“Statesmanship and Moral Choice,” Institute for International Relations, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 1993
“Normative Standards and the Problem of Pluralism: Western and Non-Western Values in the New International Society,” Realia Conference, Institute for Advanced Philosophic Research, Estes Park, CO, August 1992
“Is Democracy an Ethical Standard?” U.S. Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference, Annapolis, MD, April 1992
“Changing Concepts of Ethics, Nationality and Democracy in the U.S. and Japan,” CUNY Japan Initiative Symposium New York, NY, October 1991; and International House, Tokyo, Japan, November 1991
“The Realist Tradition in American Foreign Policy: Hans Morgenthau, Reinhold Niebuhr, and George Kennan,” Luce Foundation Seminar, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, October 1991
“Ethics, Decision-making and Democratic Governance,” Ethics Training Roundtable, National Defense University, Washington, DC, November 1991
“Normative Standards in International Relations,” International Studies Association, Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 1991
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“International Politics, Ethics, and the Environment: Clarifying Normative Standards,” Casassa Conference, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, March 1991
“Traditional Diplomacy and New Patterns,” Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, November 1990
“The Contribution of Science and Technology to Global Environmental Policy: Toward an Ethical Framework,” UNESCO/Club of Rome, Working Group on Science and Technology, Berlin, Germany, October 1990
“Values in Soviet and American Foreign Policy: New Thinking in Superpower Relations,” Carnegie Council/Institute for USA and Canada Studies, USSR Academy of Sciences, Working Group, Berlin, Germany, October 1990
“The Oxymoron Problem: Integrating Ethics into the Study of International Affairs,” Core Curriculum Faculty Workshop Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, NJ, May 1990
“The Place of Ethics Within the Discipline of International Relations,” International Studies Association, Washington, DC, April 1990
“Power and Morality: The Reagan Legacy,” Minnesota Foreign Policy Association, Minneapolis, MN, January 1989
Selected Recent Conferences
“Happiness and Well-Being,” Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education, and Carnegie Council Conference, United Kingdom, June 2013
“The Recovery of Ethics,” Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C., April 2013
“Politics of Migration in Germany: Joel Rosenthal Interviews Cem Ozdemir and Michael Goring,” in collaboration with American Friends of Bucerius, Carnegie Council, New York, NY, May 2011
“Shaping Moral Psychology,” Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education, and Carnegie Council Conference, New York, NY, November 2011
“Information Ethics: Future of Humanities,” Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education, and Carnegie Council Conference, United Kingdom, December 2010
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“Foundations of the Professional Military Ethic,” Thayer Hotel, West Point, NY, April 2010
“Human Rights, Democracy, and Democratization,” Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education, and Carnegie Council Conference, New York, NY, November 2009
“Ethics and Leadership,” Conference on Leadership and Government Reform, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, June 2009
“Nationalism, Liberalism, and Zionism: A Discussion Commemorating the Centennial Year of Birth of Sir Isaiah Berlin,” CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, March 2009
“In the Quest of Ethical Wisdom and Its Application,” Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education, and Carnegie Council Conference, Japan, May 2007
“Should the U.S. Do More to Engage Russia?” Gramercy Round Table, NY, May 2007
“Leadership & Ethics: Exploring the Challenges,” Senator John McCain Conference of Service Academies, U.S. Naval Academy, MD, May 2007
“International Benchmarking Review of UK Politics and International Studies,” Economic and Social Research Council, Political Studies Association and British International Studies Association, United Kingdom, January 2007
“Free Trade, Fair Trade, and Sustainable Development: The Case of Resource Extraction,” Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education, and Carnegie Council Conference, NY, December 2006
“The Iran Box: Is There A Way Out?” Gramercy Round Table, NY, October 2006
“The Moral Nation?” Center for Religious Inquiry, Center for Public Life and Carnegie Council, NY, June 2006
“Ethics in a Globalizing World,” Faculty Development Seminar, Drake University, Des Moines, IA, July 2006
“China Goes Global: Challenges for the United States,” Gramercy Round Table, NY, May 2006
“Religion in the Longer-Range Future,” Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University, MA, April 2006
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“Information Ethics: Agents, Artifacts, and New Cultural Perspectives,” Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education, and Carnegie Council Conference, United Kingdom, December 2005
“Reinhold Niebuhr,” Roundtable, Union Theological Seminary, NY, November 2005
“The Indispensible Nation: A Tribute to James Chace,” Eurasia Group and Carnegie Council, NY, December 2004
“How Can Human Nature Be Ethically Improved?” Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education, and Carnegie Council Conference, New York, NY, November 2004
“Reconsidering Realism: The Legacy of Hans Morgenthau in International Relations,” University of Wales, United Kingdom, October 2004
“Senior Service College Leadership Workshop,” U.S. Naval War College, Newport, RI, September 2004
“Re-Inventing Globalization: Designing a Collaborative Process for Promoting Positive Policy Alternatives,” Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Pocantico Conference Center, New York, September 2004
“Values and Moral Reasoning in International Affairs,” Faculty Development Seminar, Vanderbilt University and Carnegie Council, Nashville, TN, June 2004
“War & Morality: Re-thinking the Just War Tradition for the 21st Century,” National Endowment for the Humanities Institute, U.S. Naval War College, Annapolis, MD, June 2004
“Responding to ‘Delinquent’ Institutions: Blame, Punishment and Rehabilitation,” British Academy Network on Ethics, Institutions and International Relations and Carnegie Council, NY, May 2004
“Economic Development, Human Development, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of Longer-Range Future, Boston University, MA, April 2004
“Hegemony and Its Discontents: Power, Ideology and Knowledge in the Study and Practice of International Relations,” International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, March 2004
“Looking Back at the Wilderness Troubles,” Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education, and Carnegie Council Conference, United Kingdom, November 2003 16
“The Moral Responsibilities of the United States Armed Forces in Iraq,” 15th Annual Professional Ethics Conference, U.S. Naval War College, Annapolis, MD, November 2003
“America’s Role in World Affairs,” 319th Session of the University Philosophical Society, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, October 2003
“Media and the Military: Lessons Learned from the Iraq War,” Carnegie Council, NY, June 2003
“Democracies and Dirty Wars: Hard Cases in Military Ethics,” McCormick Tribune Foundation, Chicago, IL, March 2003
“The Politics of Moral Certainty,” The McDowell Conference on Philosophy and Social Policy, American University, Washington, DC, November 2002
“Towards an International Public Philosophy of Just Health Care,” Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education and Carnegie Council, NY, October 2002
“The Moral Dimension of Current Foreign Policy” Foreign Affairs Seminar, Hilton Head, SC, October 2002
“Ethical Issues in the World Economy,” Faculty Development Workshop, Shanghai International Studies University and Carnegie Council, Beijing, China, May 2002
“The Opponents of Cultural Globalization,” Cultural Globalization and U.S. Foreign Policy Conference, Boston University and Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Washington, DC, April 2002
“Issues Regarding the Use of Force Against Terrorists,” Security Challenges After September 11th Conference, Duke University, Durham, NC, April 2002
“Riskless War,” U.S. Army War College Thirteenth Annual Strategy Conference, Carlisle, PA, April 2002
“Dissolving Boundaries: The Nexus Between Comparative Politics and International Relations,” ISA Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 2002
“The Ethics of the New War,” Carnegie Council Series, New York, November 2001 – March 2002
“The Military, Morality, and National Culture,” Ethics and the Use of Force Workshop, Carnegie Council and U.S. Naval Academy, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, United Kingdom, January 2002
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“Changing and Unchanging Values in the World of the Future,” Frederick S. Pardee Center, Boston University, MA, November 2001
“The Search for a Usable Past,” Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education and Carnegie Council, NY, October 2001
“Legal and Ethical Lessons of NATO’s Kosovo Campaign,” Carnegie Council, Tel Aviv University, University of Virginia School of Law, and U.S. Naval War College, Newport, RI, August 2001
“Supranationalism: The Ethics of Global Governance,” National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Development Seminar and Carnegie Council, Columbia University, NY, June 2001
“International Relations and the New Inequality,” International Studies Association, Chicago, IL, February 2001
“Ethics and International Affairs: An Agenda for the Future,” International Studies Association Northeast Conference, Albany, New York, November 2000
“The U.S. Elections: Critical for the UN?” International Peace Academy, New York, November 2000
“Ethics in Conflict,” International Affairs Conference on Star Island, July 2000
“Historical Objectivity and Journalistic Truth,” From Journalism to History Conference, The Center for International Relations and The International History Institute, Boston University, MA, October 1999
“Ethical Issues in U.S. Foreign Policy,” USIA Summer Institute Workshop, Boston University, MA, July 1999
“Is There a New American Hegemony?” Carnegie Council/World Policy Institute Conference, Merrill House, New York, NY, April 1997 (Conference Co- Coordinator)
“Community and Morality in a Democratic Society,” New York University, New York, February 1997
“Moral Judgment and Cold War History,” Carnegie Council/Baker Peace Studies Endowment Conference, Merrill House, New York, NY, December 1996/October 1995 (Conference Co-Coordinator)
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“Crime and Punishment: Natural Law, Positive Law, and National/International Moral Norms,” Institute for Advanced Philosophical Research, Estes Park, CO, August 1994 (Conference Co-Coordinator)
“Ethics, Security, and the New World Order,” National Defense University, Washington, DC, February 1993 (Conference Co-Coordinator)
“Self-Interests and the Common Good: The Problem of Ethical Dualism in International Affairs,” Humanities Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, February 1992
“Europe and Its Values in the New International Society,” Gasperi Institute, Rome, Italy, November 1991
“Moral Education and Social Change: Education for Citizenship in the Twenty- first Century,” Uehiro Foundation for Ethics and Education/Carnegie Council Symposium, International House, Tokyo, Japan, November 1991 (Conference Coordinator)
“Whither the Soviet Union?: The Role of Western Models in Russian Reform,” Wilton Park Conference Centre, Sussex, United Kingdom, July 1991
“Force, Responsibility, Corruption: Ethical Themes in American Foreign Policy,” Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, January 1991
“Moral Education in the U.S. and Japan,” Carnegie Council Symposium, New York, NY, December 1990
“An Ethical Agenda for the Common European Home,” Wilton Park Conference Centre, Sussex, United Kingdom, July 1990 (Conference Coordinator)
“Development, Debt, and the Hungry,” Notre Dame University, June 1990 (Member, Executive Planning Committee; sponsored by the Interfaith Hunger Appeal)
“Ethics in International Affairs: Case Studies for Policy Practitioners,” George Washington University, June 1990 (funded by the United States Institute of Peace)
“International Law and Secret Warfare,” U.S. Institute of Peace Study Group, Washington, DC, March 1990
“International Studies Association,” University of London, March 1989; and Merrill House, New York City, October 1989 (Member, Ethics Working Group)
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“US Human Rights Policies,” Purdue University, September 1989 (Conference Coordinator)
“Teaching Ethics and International Affairs,” Yale University, Summer Faculty Institute, June 1989 (Conference Coordinator)
“Refugees and Humanitarian Intervention,” Smith College, April 1989 (Conference Coordinator)
Professional and Membership Organizations
Council on Foreign Relations International Studies Association Yale Club of the City of New York
Selected Special Projects
Advisory Board, Athens Democracy Forum, co-sponsored by United Nations, New York Times, City of Athens, 2015 - Present
Board of Advisors, Center for Civic Engagement, Bard College, 2013 - Present
Project Director, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 2001 Faculty Institute, “Supranationalism,” Columbia University
Project Director, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 1994 Faculty Institute, “Teaching Ethics and International Affairs,” University of Virginia
Charter author and principal organizer, International Ethics Section, International Studies Association (ISA) 1993