Articles & Reports

NOV 28, 2012 • Article

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, ...

NOV 26, 2012 • Article

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 ...

NOV 21, 2012 • Article

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.

NOV 20, 2012 • Article

The United States can be effective in its pivot toward Asia by using its influence to help resolve territorial disputes and defuse the rightward lurch ...

NOV 6, 2012 • Article

When the film "2001" first came out, the plot--in which a robot faces an ethical decision--seemed like pure science fiction. Today it's becoming reality. This essay ...

NOV 5, 2012 • Article

There is a means to denuclearize North Korea: a Beijing-Pyongyang Grand Bargain whereby the DPRK nuclear weapons program is dismantled in exchanged for protection under ...

NOV 5, 2012 • Article

Measuring how countries develop is all the rage, but are these indicators examining the most appropriate data? Seth Kaplan says it's time we start looking ...

NOV 1, 2012 • Article

3D printing is the new frontier in manufacturing, with potentially radical effects on patterns of global trade and development.

NOV 1, 2012 • Article

This election gives us a choice between two clearly different paths. Will we take the first halting steps toward developing a sustainable civilization, or will ...