Recent Articles
MAY 1, 2015 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Technology and Finance: Darwinism or Symbiosis?
An open innovative mindset on the part of both banks and non-banks alike will be key to modernize the infrastructure of banking.
APR 30, 2015 • Article
How to get from Soviet Studies to Russian Studies
The end of major government funding for Russian studies offers a chance to start studying Russia properly, argues Nicolai Petro, and that's something which is ...
APR 27, 2015 • Article
Is Downloading Really Stealing? The Ethics of Digital Piracy
You wouldn't steal a car, you wouldn't steal a handbag, you wouldn't steal a television. But what about downloading pirated films? Is intellectual property infringement ...
APR 25, 2015 • Journal Online Exclusive
Killer Robots: Toward the Loss of Humanity
Robots should not be allowed to make life and death decisions. These should stay firmly within the human purview.
APR 22, 2015 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: What Makes a City Great? It's not the Liveability but the Loveability
A conversation about cities, suburbs, and the consequences of exporting the "Western" city model to the world with Ethan Kent, senior vice president of Project ...
APR 15, 2015 • Journal
Ebola, Liberia, and the "Cult of Bankable Projects"
SHEFA SIEGEL Instead of addressing core issues of state failure, development aid continues pushing narrowly focused agendas that have little meaning in places where institutions ...
APR 14, 2015 • Journal Online Exclusive
Ethics and the Iran Talks
Have the participants negotiated in good faith, with an intent to execute faithfully any and all obligations undertaken?
APR 8, 2015 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: The Smartification of Humanitarian Response
The "data revolution" is underway, ushering a smart era of humanitarian and development work.
APR 7, 2015 • Article
ISIS is the Product of Muslim Humiliation and the New Geopolitics of the Middle East
Since the end of the Cold War, a third wave of geopolitics is starting to take hold in the Middle East, one that will be ...
APR 7, 2015 • Article
Rethinking the Prevention Mandate of Peace NGOs: An EastWest Route
How can peace NGOs be more effective, both at preventing conflict and maintaining peace? Greg Austin of the EastWest Institute looks at the record of ...