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APR 9, 2014 Journal Online Exclusive

Preventing Corporate Human Rights Abuse: It's Time for Government Action

Each time we celebrate a bold move of a company, we do so precisely because embedding human rights in business practice is just that: a ...

Ivory market in Kinshasa. CREDIT: <a href="http://www.policyinnovations.org/innovators/people/data/emma_stokes">Emma Stokes</a> &copy; <a href="http://www.policyinnovations.org/innovators/organizations/data/00941">WCS</a>.

APR 4, 2014 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: A United Front in the War for Wildlife

Conservationists need a unified approach to stop the illegal trade in wildlife: species protection, human development, good governance, and enforcement.

APR 1, 2014 Journal

Spring 2014 (28.1)

This issue features a policy brief by Michael W. Doyle and Joseph E. Stiglitz on eliminating extreme inequality worldwide; essays by Amartya Sen on Buddha ...

July 1917: U.S. Secretary of War, blindfolded, draws the first number in the draft lottery.

MAR 24, 2014 Article

The Lost Promise of Patriotism: Jonathan Hansen on World War I (Part II)

"What does it mean to be patriotic in a nation founded on a set of putative universal principles and composed primarily of immigrants and their ...

MAR 20, 2014 Journal

The Contemporary Relevance of Buddha

There is a basic humanity in the story of Buddha’s life that is easy to access and absorb in our own lives.

MAR 20, 2014 Journal

Eliminating Extreme Inequality: A Sustainable Development Goal, 2015–2030

Sustainable development cannot be achieved while ignoring extreme disparities. It is imperative that the post-MDG agenda focus on inequality.

MAR 19, 2014 Journal Online Exclusive

The Lost Promise of Patriotism and World War I (Part I)

In this interview, Hansen describes a group of American scholars, public intellectuals, and social reformers—such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Eugene V. Debs, ...

MAR 19, 2014 Journal Online Exclusive

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

MICHAEL NEIBERG AND MLADEN JOKSIC For Neiberg, it is impossible to see how a Second World War, a Holocaust, a Cold War, a globally-engaged United ...

MAR 19, 2014 Journal Online Exclusive

The Lost Promise of Patriotism and World War I (Part II)

JONATHAN HANSEN AND ZACH DORFMAN "The entry of the United States into World War I in April 1917 swamped cosmopolitan patriotism in a wave of jingoism," ...

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MAR 19, 2014 Article

The Ethics of Avoiding Conflict with China

Is there a policy prescription that can avoid turning predictions of a Sino-American clash into a self-fulfilling prophecy?