Top Risks and Ethical Decisions 2010
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Created and managed by Carnegie Council Senior Program Director and Senior Fellow William Vocke, Global Ethics Corner is a weekly two minute segment devoted to newsworthy ethical issues.
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The Eurasia Group identified ten top global risks for business in 2010.
Some are essentially geopolitical or geo-economic issues like #3, the threats to the fiscal integrity of the European Euro-zone economies, or like #7, for Brazil, the impact of upcoming elections on the economy.
Many other risks also have an underlying ethical component.
Risk #1 is U.S.-China relations. Structural economic pressures of currencies, jobs, exports, and growth strategies divide the countries, as well as the role of global actors, of stakeholders, regarding climate change, cyber-security, nuclear proliferation, et cetera. Underneath are fundamentally different ethical choices about the roles of governments and individuals.
Risk #2 is Iran and in particular their domestic, regional, and global challenges. However, fundamental ethical choices surface in both the relationship of religion to governance an...
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