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JAN 12, 2016 Journal Online Exclusive

Revisiting the Management of Pluralism

The recent migration surge into Europe and the United States raises profound questions of demographic and cultural pluralism.

Kobe, Japan after the 1945 air raid. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kobe_after_the_1945_air_raid.JPG" target="_blank">wikimedia</a>

JAN 12, 2016 Article

The Death of a Pacifist?: On Akiyuki Nosaka's Death

The Japanese writer Akiyuki Nosaka died last month. He is best known, internationally, for his semi-autobiographical novel "A Grave of Fireflies," made famous by Studio ...

JAN 6, 2016 Journal Online Exclusive

Global Governance and Keystone States

Critical challenges—environmental collapse, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and crime, and state collapse—pose existential questions to the continued existence of nation-states.

JAN 5, 2016 Journal Online Exclusive

The Ethics of Arming Rebels and U.S. Policy—A Clash?

Having encouraged rebels to continue to fight by providing weapons and financial support, do sponsors have the duty to ensure their side can actually win ...

Poor and homeless on the Central Market in Krakow, Poland. CREDIT: <a href="http://shutr.bz/1kFqGEm" target="_blank">Shutterstock </a>

JAN 4, 2016 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: "World Hunger: Ten Myths" by Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins

Chapter by chapter, Frances Moore Lappé and her co-authors demolish the myths that have long prevented us from addressing hunger, and examine the policies that ...

DEC 30, 2015 Journal Online Exclusive

Duties Owed: Does the International Trump the National Community?

If particular states are asked to assume burdens "for the good of all," what claim to be compensated does that state have in return?

DEC 23, 2015 Journal Online Exclusive

Is There an "International Community"?

We hear the term "international community" so often that it becomes part of the background noise of political statements, but it may help to revisit ...

Oxford. CREDIT:<a href="http://bit.ly/1QCzSaR" target="_blank">Yann Caradec</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">(CC)</a>

DEC 21, 2015 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Can the University Help Make Better Cities?

We need 21st-century institutions for 21st-century urbanization and cities. If we have the courage to reimagine and remake them, universities can be at the heart ...

DEC 16, 2015 Journal Online Exclusive

Upcoming Conferences of Interest 2015-2016

These are some upcoming conferences the editors believe readers of the journal may be interested in attending.

Credit: <a href="http://www.new-harvest.org/ target="_blank">New Harvest</a>.

DEC 14, 2015 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: From Lab to Table

"New Harvest" wants to kick-start a bio-economy of animal products made without animals. Some have already called this revolution "the next .com."