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JAN 7, 2013 Journal

Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience Edited by Claire Magone, Michaël Neuman, and Fabrice Weissman; and Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present by Didier Fassin

These two recent works make a complementary and refreshing contribution to the burgeoning field of humanitarian studies. Both books shed new light on the authority ...

JAN 7, 2013 Journal

Briefly Noted

This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.

JAN 7, 2013 Journal

Introductory Note

Recent developments in climate policy have done little to suggest that the world is acting quickly enough to avoid a dangerous rise in global temperatures. ...

JAN 7, 2013 Journal

Arctic Stewardship: Maintaining Regional Resilience in an Era of Global Change [Full Text]

What sorts of harms arising from changes in the Arctic are actionable, and who should take the actions required to respond to them?

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.