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CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/left-hand/2814863998/">Stuart Richards</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

FEB 14, 2013 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Mined Fair for the Fair-minded

The Alliance for Responsible Mining is working to bring ethical gold to the retail jewelry market through a new Fairtrade and Fairmined Standard.

FEB 13, 2013 Journal

Echoes of a Forgotten Past: Mid-Century Realism and the Legacy of International Law

Those studying the work of Hans J. Morgenthau, widely considered the “founding father” of the Realist School of International Relations, have long been baffled by ...

FEB 13, 2013 Journal

The Unity and Objectivity of Value

In honor of Ronald Dworkin, one of the most influential and original philosophers and legal theorists of his generation, EIA is republishing a review essay ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cifor/5701875645/">Ryan Woo / CIFOR</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

FEB 13, 2013 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Exporting Expertise: Lessons from Brazil's Forest Success

It took a broad group of actors to reduce Brazilian deforestation by 75 percent in seven years. Now, their success can be emulated in other tropical ...

FEB 11, 2013 Article

Saddam’s Pistol, and Yours

In the current debate over gun regulation a simple point is being missed. Every citizen has the right to a gun. But shouldn’t every ...

CREDIT: &copy; <a href="http://www.ipe.org.cn/en/">Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs</a>.

FEB 11, 2013 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Ma Jun: Information Empowers

Chinese environmentalist Ma Jun walks the line between transparency and activism in his quest to clean China's air, land, and water.

FEB 6, 2013 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: What I Talk About When I Talk About Sustainability

The ease with which sustainability rolls off the tongue these days far surpasses our understanding of it or our implementation. A few changes in attitude ...

JAN 7, 2013 Journal

The Right to Justification: Elements of a Constructivist Theory of Justice by Rainer Forst

In this book--a tour de force that exhibits both a compelling, unified vision and a wide range of concrete insights--Forst explains how his unified theory ...

JAN 7, 2013 Journal

Dignity in Adversity: Human Rights in Troubled Times by Seyla Benhabib

In this book, Benhabib makes a compelling case for a “cosmopolitanism without illusions” that may help show the way through an uncertain world transformed and ...

JAN 7, 2013 Journal

Global Civics: Responsibilities and Rights in an Interdependent World Edited by Hakan Altinay

"Global Civics" is an attempt to ignite a dialogue about responsibilities and rights in an increasingly interdependent world, and should be of interest to anyone ...