Recent Articles
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 ...
APR 1, 2015 • Journal
Spring 2015 (29.1)
This issue includes an essay by Shefa Siegel on “Liberia, Ebola, and the ‘Cult of Bankable Projects’”; a symposium on imagining a “Drone Accountability Regime,” ...
MAR 27, 2015 • Article
It's the Fears not the Fear Mongering that We Should Focus On
"Instead of focusing on Netanyahu's fear mongering, let's focus on trying to assuage Israeli fears. Only then will Israelis vote for someone who really supports ...
MAR 25, 2015 • Journal Online Exclusive
EIA Podcast: Introducing the Spring 2015 Issue
In this podcast, EIA Senior Editor Zach Dorfman speaks with Carnegie Council Communications Director Madeleine Lynn on the spring 2015 issue of the journal.
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 ...
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 ...