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U.S. President Barack Obama at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. CREDIT: U.S. Embassy Tokyo via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Japan_Obama_Hiroshima_(27501980926).jpg">Wikipedia</a>

MAY 23, 2016 Article

Obama at Hiroshima

The president's visit to Hiroshima to affirm his commitment to a world without nuclear weapons is no doubt a legacy-burnishing gesture, writes Rosenthal. "Yet there ...

MAY 20, 2016 Journal Online Exclusive

Trans-Pacific Partnership and Trump

Listening to Marketplace's discussion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, two things jumped out at me: the first is the assessment that, after all the heavy lifting ...

Ourania Sophia Yancopoulos. CREDIT: Amanda Ghanooni

MAY 16, 2016 Article

Gender Imbalance in the UN Leadership

"Despite the UN's repeated commitment to 50/50 gender parity, the UN has never been even close to this goal," writes Ourania Yancopoulos in this follow-up interview ...

MAY 15, 2016 Article

Obama at Hiroshima

President Obama’s impending visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park completes a process long in the works and fundamental to his foreign policy agenda. ...

Fifth Moscow Conference on International Security

MAY 12, 2016 Article

The Fifth Annual Moscow Conference on International Security

David Speedie attended this important three-day conference and reports that "a global array of speakers articulated a corresponding range of country/area-specific concerns, much of ...

APR 28, 2016 Journal Online Exclusive

The Ethics of Trump's Foreign Policy vs. Obama's Long Game

Much of the reaction to Donald Trump's foreign policy speech, beyond the campaign-related questions of whether this address makes him look more presidential or electable, ...

Rajasthan, India. CREDIT: <a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-207338305.html?src=download_history" target="_blank">Shutterstock</a>.

APR 28, 2016 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: "The Third World War Will be About Water"

Rajendra Singh, known as the "water man of India," believes that critically depleted aquifers around the world can be revived with community effort.

Devin Stewart (on left) and Michael Ignatieff (center) with student leaders and activists at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

APR 21, 2016 Article

In Search of a Global Ethic

Research in 25 cities in eight countries on five continents shows that norms across cultures may not be so different after all.

The Srebrenica Genocide Memorial. CREDIT: <a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-156922007/stock-photo-potocari-bosnia-and-herzegovina-june-the-srebrenica-genocide-memorial-on-june-in.html" target="_blank">Shutterstock</a>

APR 14, 2016 Article

Legacies and Prospects of Joint Criminal Enterprises in Europe

In March 2016, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Of course, this is a positive step. ...

APR 1, 2016 Journal Online Exclusive

Communitarian Approach? New China-U.S. Agreements

Do the agreements reached at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington between Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping represent an evolution towards the communitarian vision ...