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The Principle of Pragmatic Idealism

The Foundation’s executive director, Björn Holmberg, joins the Carnegie Council’s Values & Interests podcast to reflect on the role of pragmatic idealism in international affairs and what it means for global cooperation today.

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What are the political and human risks of a world increasingly defined by transactional politics and national interests? Björn Holmberg, executive director of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, joins the Carnegie Council Values & Interests podcast to discuss the power of pragmatic idealism across international relations, the need to inject morality into the practice of geopolitics without moralizing, and how we can create realistic conditions for greater global cooperation.

Listen to the podcast here.

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