These four speakers will reflect on different aspects of America's moral legitimacy in the world today and the moral hazards implicit in the clash between how the United States, currently the world's sole superpower, with great potential to do both harm and good, is viewed abroad and the belief Americans still have in its values and international policies.

"William Schulz has done more than anyone else in the American human rights movement to make human rights issues known in the United States."
The New York Review of Books (June, 2002)

Dr. Schulz was appointed executive director of Amnesty International USA in March 1994. An ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, he came to Amnesty after serving for fifteen years with the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, the last eight (1985-1993) as president of the Association. Dr. Schulz's latest book is called Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights.

October 19, 2004
AMERICAN POWER AND EMPIRE | Read a transcript of this talk
John B. Judis, senior editor of the New Republic and visiting scholar with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

John B. Judis will discuss the historical contradictions in earlier historical attempts of empire building by the United States and the contradiction that always emerges between 'empire' and 'democracy'.

Judis' articles have appeared in the world's leading publications. He is the author of five books, including William F. Buckley: Patron Saint of the Conservatives, and The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Interests and the Betrayal of Public Trust. His latest book is called The Folly of Empire: What George W. Bush could learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

March 8, 2005
AMERICAN POWER AND JUSTICE | Read a transcript of this talk
Dr. Joel H. Rosenthal, president of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs

Dr. Rosenthal lectures and writes frequently on ethics, U.S. foreign policy, and international relations. Under his direction, the Carnegie Council sponsors educational programs for a worldwide audience. Recent partners in this work include the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the International Studies Association (ISA), the Oxford Centre for Applied Ethics, and the Shanghai International
Studies University, among many others.

Among his current professional activities, Rosenthal is editor-in-chief of the journal Ethics & International Affairs, and has oversight responsibilities for the Council's main projects on ethics and armed conflict with conflict prevention; comparative human rights; justice and the world economy; environmental policy; and the politics of reconciliation.

April 12, 2005
AMERICAN POWER AND DEVELOPMENT | Read a transcript of this talk
Dr. Nancy Birdsall, founding president of the Center for Global Development

Prior to launching the Center for Global Development, Nancy Birdsall served as senior associate and director of the Economic Reform Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace where she focused on issues of globalization and inequality, as well as on the reform of the international financial institutions.

Dr. Birdsall is the author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books and monographs, including Population Matters – Demographic Change, Economic Growth, and Poverty in the Developing World.

All lectures will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Raymond James Room, Fox Hall, Hough Center. Questions? E-mail us at events@eckerd.edu or call 727.864.7979.

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