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MAY 13, 2014 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Saving Tigers in Thailand

A potent combo of tactics is saving Thai tigers: science, government-NGO partnership, new technologies, judiciary enforcement, and honor for the brave and fallen park rangers.

Lean-to camp where farmers guard the land.  The court ruled in their favor but soon after, the lawyer who had argued the case was murdered. CREDIT: Camila Rich

MAY 6, 2014 Article

The Lower Aguán in Honduras and the Deadly Battle Over Land Rights

The tumult in the Lower Aguán calls for a more thorough examination of the nature of land rights conflict and its role in making ...

Nightlife in Shinjuku via <a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=171980396"> Shutterstock </a>

MAY 5, 2014 Article

Japan's Change Generation

For the past two decades, Tokyo has been described as stagnant, glacial, and arthritic. But that is only part of the story. Outside the government, ...

MAY 5, 2014 Journal Online Exclusive

Mulligans in The Golf Game of International Law

Over the past several years, it seems that international law really is in the eye of the beholder—and that some states have less consistency ...

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APR 23, 2014 Article

Ukraine: A Federalist Future?

One possibility of lowering tensions in Ukraine on a longer-term basis is the start of discussions on a federal-decentralized government structure that would not divide ...

1917 Poster, U.S. Food Administration, from the <a href="http://docsteach.org/documents/512621/detail?menu=closed&mode=search&sortBy=era&q=world+war+poster&commit=Go&page=1">National Archives</a>.

APR 17, 2014 Article

Jingo Unchained: What World War I Wrought

When we think about the centenary of World War I in 2014, we should consider first and foremost what it has meant for the life of ...

APR 16, 2014 Article

Dance of the Furies: Michael Neiberg on Europe and the Outbreak of World War I

"It is impossible for me to see how a Second World War, a Holocaust, a Cold War, a globally-engaged United States, and decolonization could happen ...

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APR 16, 2014 Article

Ukraine, The Great Powers, Budapest, and "Astheneia"

Was it unethical for the United States to give Ukraine non-binding security guarantees as an inducement for giving up nuclear weapons?

APR 10, 2014 Journal Online Exclusive

Ukraine, The Great Powers, Budapest, and Astheneia

The Ukrainian government was either led to believe or fooled itself into thinking that was was produced in Budapest in 1994 constituted guarantees about its security, ...

Baglung District, Nepal. Photo courtesy of Florian Krampe

APR 10, 2014 Article

Climate Change Mitigation, Peacebuilding, and Resilience

How are our efforts to reduce the impact of climate change affecting post-conflict societies? Drawing on his empirical data on micro hydropower development in post-conflict ...