Recent Articles
JAN 7, 2013 • Journal
“If Equity’s In, We’re Out”: Scope for Fairness in the Next Global Climate Agreement
This article sets out a conceptual framework for normative theorizing about fairness in international negotiations, with a particular emphasis on the role of feasibility considerations. ...
JAN 7, 2013 • Journal
Climate Justice and Capabilities: A Framework for Adaptation Policy
This article argues that most well-known approaches to climate justice have two important weaknesses, in that they fail to take advantage of two crucial developments: ...
JAN 7, 2013 • Journal
Coaxing Climate Policy Leadership
In this article, I identify several conditions for and obstacles to effective international policy leadership with a view toward creating the conditions for that leadership ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...