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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 ...

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

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