"A Deficit of Morals? Are the presidential candidates’ security policies moral?"

From: Oct 18 2012 - 7:00pm
To: Oct 18 2012 - 8:30pm
Location: Prince Georges Room | Adele H. Stamp Student Union

"A Deficit of Morals? Are the presidential candidates’ security policies moral?"

Is President Barack Obama’s policy of “targeted killing” in line with Just War principles? Is the U.S. failure to negotiate legally binding reductions on carbon emissions morally acceptable? What are the moral imperatives raised by possible responses to the Iranian nuclear program? Is the United States’ own reliance on nuclear deterrence, an unchanged legacy of the Cold War, morally defensible?

A public discussion sponsored by the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) will address these and other questions related to the presidential candidates’ security policies. The event will feature CISSM director Professor John Steinbruner, Anwar Sadat Professor of Peace and Development Shibley Telhami, and others. The discussion is part of an ongoing CISSM research initiative that explores how Americans’ moral and religious beliefs affect their preferences on important global security policy challenges such as climate change and nuclear risks.