Recent Articles
SEP 4, 2013 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Ghana Builds Bamboo Bikes
A bamboo bicycle builder in Ghana is working to end the triple problem of poverty, unemployment, and environmental degradation by training rural migrants in manufacturing ...
SEP 3, 2013 • Journal Online Exclusive
Out Now! Centennial Roundtable on "Nonproliferation in the 21st Century"
FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME! In the journal's fall issue, four leading experts present their perspectives on the contemporary state of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and ...
SEP 2, 2013 • Journal Online Exclusive
On Law, Policy, and (Not) Bombing Syria
The question of whether the US should use its military against Assad is separate from the questions of legal interpretation. The legal question does not ...
AUG 30, 2013 • Article
Syria: The Case for Punitive Intervention
"If framed in terms of punishment for a wrong committed, and if undertaken in a way that respects the rule of law at the global ...
AUG 29, 2013 • Journal Online Exclusive
Syria: "To Jaw-Jaw Is Always Better than to War-War"
It has been the mantra of pro-interventionists that, in the face of tens of thousands of deaths in Syria, something must be done. But, while ...
AUG 29, 2013 • Article
Syria: "To Jaw-Jaw Is Always Better than to War-War"
The mantra of those who are pro-intervention in Syria is that while there are no good options, in the face of tens of thousands of ...
AUG 26, 2013 • Article
Ethics on Film: Discussion of "The Act of Killing"
It is not hyperbole to call this documentary an epochal film. It brings viewers into the minds of mass murderers, illuminates a horrific piece of ...
AUG 20, 2013 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: POEM: Tomorrow's Child
This poem was written to convey the imperative of sustainability. As geographical lines blur due to trade and markets, so can ethics.
AUG 19, 2013 • Journal Online Exclusive
In Memoriam: Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941-2013)
Celebrating Jean Bethke Elshtain, one of the preeminent political theorists of our time.
AUG 19, 2013 • Article
Life, Money, and the Pursuit of Happiness
The day after the Moore, Oklahoma tornado of 2013, a single image dominated media coverage: a photo of the two-foot thick concrete and steel bank vault ...