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NOV 5, 2015 Journal Online Exclusive

Anti-Vehicle Mines: A Threat to Human Security

DENISE GARCIA, URSIGN HOFMANN, PASCAL RAPILLARD, AND STEFANO TOSCANO The devastating impact of anti-vehicle mines (AVMs) is now widely understood. States have a responsibility to ...

Busy Crossing Street in Hong Kong, China. CREDIT: <a href="http://shutr.bz/1PgFnta" target="_blank">Shuttersock</a>

NOV 2, 2015 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Building Cities from Scratch: Is There a Formula for a Sustainable City?

In the contemporary urban development industry ideas travel in the context of a commercial transaction in which practitioners are hired to provide a service.

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OCT 27, 2015 Article

The Global Ethic and Law

"While not legal in character or aspiration, the Global Ethic nevertheless offers useful perspectives in critique of law," writes Bradley Shingleton, co-editor of the recently ...

South Sudanese President Salva Kiir. CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thespeakernews/15537268219" target="_blank">Day Donaldson</a>

OCT 22, 2015 Article

Back to the Drawing Board: What the Recent Peace Agreement Means for South Sudan

Will South Sudan's President Kiir really remain committed to the August 2015 peace agreement that ended the civil war? Claire Metalits has studied South Sudan and ...

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OCT 15, 2015 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Fighting Obesity Requires a Choice: Profit or Public Health?

Unless governments take steps to promote healthy diets and discourage consumption of ultra-processed products, chances to stop and reverse the obesity epidemic remain quite slim.

Obama attends TPP meeting at the ASEAN Summit in Cambodia, Nov. 20, 2012. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/8247637207/in/photolist-dyPicv" target="_blank">The White House</a>

OCT 14, 2015 Article

Trans-Pacific Partnership: Prospects and Challenges

After nearly five years of difficult talks, 12 Pacific Rim states have finalized the text of the TPP, a free-trade agreement that has the potential to ...

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OCT 14, 2015 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Big Soda Politics: A Call to Advocacy

It is becoming evident that Big Soda copies the playbook used by Big Tobacco to distract people from the harm caused by cigarette smoking. Although ...

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OCT 13, 2015 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: How Much More Processed Food Can We Eat?

Food policies for the 21st century will be about the purpose of markets and the need to hold marketers to account for their activities.

OCT 7, 2015 Journal

The Normative Terrain of the Global Refugee Regime

ALEXANDER BETTS The issues of who, why, and how to protect refugees pose a series of normative challenges that can only be addressed by recognizing ...

Presidents Obama and Putin at UN Luncheon, September 28, 2015. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/un_photo/21769577406" target="_blank">United Nations Photo</a>

OCT 1, 2015 Article

Messrs. Obama and Putin: Put Syria and Syrians First

While the U.S. and Russia disagree over the fate of Assad, they share a self-interested resolve to defeat the ISIL forces that now control ...