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CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/25195310@N02/2692782619/in/photostream/">Danielle Walquist Lynch </a> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">(CC)</a>

JAN 2, 2013 Article

Will 2013 Launch the Asian Century? Don’t Count on It

If an Asian Century means one in which Asian culture and politics dominate the globe, it won't be coming any time soon. Instead, for many ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/vectorportal/7796847260" target="_parent"> Vectorportal</a><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en" target="_parent"> (CC)</a>

DEC 17, 2012 Article

Israel and Hamas: Time to Talk?

Hamas is unlikely to ever become a partner for peace with Israel, but it can be a partner for coexistence, albeit a limited and uneasy ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lecercle/436319551/">Akshay Mahajan</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

DEC 11, 2012 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Buds of Hope

With technical assistance from a local NGO, poor farmers in Maharashtra have been able to supplement their seasonal income by cultivating organic jasmine buds.

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/primeministergr/4135776484/">Prime Minister of Greece</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

DEC 10, 2012 Article

The Crisis in Greece, Democracy, and the EU

The sovereign-debt crisis in Greece made clear that the fate of Greece, the Eurozone, and the EU are irrevocably bound together. It sparked debates on ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/breadfortheworld/4132138328/">Bread for the World</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

DEC 6, 2012 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Send Salads to Ethiopia, and Solar Panels to Senegal

We wouldn't send salads as food relief to a starving country, so why is the Overseas Private Investment Corporation doing the equivalent in the energy ...

The Least of all Possible Evils

DEC 3, 2012 Article

Hard Questions for Humanitarians

Do international laws intended to constrain war and uphold human rights unwittingly legitimate violence? Zach Dorfman of Carnegie Council reviews Eyal Weizman's book, "The Least ...

DEC 1, 2012 Journal

Winter 2012 (26.4)

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NOV 28, 2012 Article

Losing the Violence Monopoly

The poisonous cocktail of widespread police and military brutality, increasingly lethal inter-communal ethnic violence in several regions, the anxious countdown to the March 2013 presidential elections, ...

Lorraine Elliott and See Seng Tan

NOV 26, 2012 Article

Ethics, International Relations, and Global Environmental Governance

Lorraine Elliott's recent lecture in Singapore drew on more than a decade of work to canvass ways in which we might understand--and indeed make sense ...

A microloan startup. CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/magharebia/6022302164/">Magharebia</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

NOV 21, 2012 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Fostering Social Entrepreneurship in the New Tunisia

With educated youth and a nation awakening to its social and political needs, the time is ripe for social entrepreneurs to flourish in post-revolutionary Tunisia.