Recent Articles
MAR 5, 2015 • Journal
Power in Concert: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Global Governance by Jennifer Mitzen
REVIEW BY ANDREAS OSIANDER Mitzen contends that when states publicly commit to joint action in pursuit of a common goal, this fact will exert an ...
MAR 4, 2015 • Article
The Nemtsov Tragedy, and the Blame Game
Since Boris Nemtsov's murder in Moscow on February 27, we have been regaled by a range of ill-informed conspiracy theories, writes David Speedie. Yet Putin would ...
MAR 4, 2015 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Eating "Ugly," a New Healthy Trend
England and France are using creativity to push consumers to buy "ugly" fruits and vegetables.
MAR 2, 2015 • Article
Killing and Cartoons
This year Paris and Copenhagen learned that there are still people willing to kill for cartoons. The dilemma of what to think about their publication ...
FEB 27, 2015 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Let’s All Slow Down . . . Time to Prioritize People over Cars on our City Streets
New research supports the need for North American cities to really shift towards "slower" modes like walking and cycling.
FEB 26, 2015 • Article
Then and Now: Eight Lingering Questions on U.S.-Russia-Ukraine
In March 2014, David Speedie posed eight questions on the Ukraine crisis. With an ongoing civil war in Ukraine some 15 months after the Maidan rebellion and ...
FEB 25, 2015 • Article
Ethics on Film: Discussion of "Timbuktu"
An extraordinary film, "Timbuktu" chronicles a brief period during the 2012 occupation of the ancient Malian city by the militant Islamic group Ansar Dine. What do ...
FEB 23, 2015 • Article
Ukraine: The New Cuban Missile Crisis?
"There can be no military solution to the war in Ukraine, only a political one," says Carnegie Council Global Ethics Fellow Rajan Menon, co-author of "...
FEB 18, 2015 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: How We Think: Reflections on Thought in The Digital Age
On why now I do not have Wi-Fi in my apartment and relegate the first portion of my day to undisrupted and immersive activities such ...