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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends anniversary of Kievan Rus in Kiev, Ukraine.<br>CREDIT: <a href= "http://tinyurl.com/kclt6ff">Slavko Sereda via Shutterstock</a>

MAR 23, 2015 Article

Russia's Orthodox Soft Power

Russia's values are often overlooked, or treated simplistically as the antithesis of Western values. We should understand that the close relationship between the Orthodox Church ...

CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dimitratzanos/4582405583">Dimitra Tzanos</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC</a>).

MAR 23, 2015 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Africa's Rising GDP Numbers

African countries are recalculating their gross domestic products to include previously unaccounted economic activities. Is it a strategy of these countries to market themselves or ...

MAR 23, 2015 Journal Online Exclusive

Terminator Ethics: Should We Ban “Killer Robots”?

JEAN-BAPTISTE JEANGÈNE VILMER Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems are the subject of significant debate, and certain NGOs are demanding their preventive prohibition. But these systems ...

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MAR 16, 2015 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Shakespeare on the Shop Floor

A pioneering organization is using literature to enable other sorts of conversations at the workplace—the types of conversations that successful companies need to have.

Miriam, the diagnostic tool created by the <a href="http://miroculus.com/" target="_blank">Miroculus</a> team.

MAR 11, 2015 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Bye, Doctor, Hi, "Cloud"

A team of entrepreneurs based in San Francisco is turning the out-of-date diagnostic industry upside down.

MAR 11, 2015 Journal Online Exclusive

The Ethics of the Senate Letter and Iran Talks

In the United States, executive agreements—that is, arrangements made with other states that are not treaties subject to Senate ratification—exist in a gray ...

MAR 9, 2015 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Good Environmental Policies Equal More Just Societies

Conserving natural resources and the environment is an integral part of a socially just society. The big challenge is to make sure that decision-makers recognize ...

MAR 6, 2015 Journal

Toward a Drone Accountability Regime

The key principle of a Drone Accountability Regime should be transparency, and its central agent should be an Ombudsperson with broad authority to investigate situations ...

MAR 6, 2015 Journal

Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America’s Post-9/11 Wars by Neta C. Crawford

For Crawford, we ought not to regard instances in which civilians are mistakenly targeted or instances in which more civilians are killed collaterally than had ...

MAR 6, 2015 Journal

The Informal Regulation of Drones and the Formal Legal Regulation of War

How does the proposed drone accountability regime relate to existing international treaty and customary law governing the use of force, including the use of lethal ...