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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)

CREDIT: <A HREF="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sgustin/4113242724/">sgustin78</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>)

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.

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ehnmark/5036199542/">Jacob Ehnmark</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

NOV 20, 2012 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: As Asia Waltzes Forward on Two Right Feet, America Fixates on the Middle East

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 12, 2012 Journal Online Exclusive

Frankenstorms and Climate Change

The mere possibility that the damage Hurricane Sandy has wrought could be caused by our emissions should be enough to spur our political leaders to ...

Drone in Afghanistan, 2009. CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/david_axe/4094266433/">David Axe</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>)

NOV 6, 2012 Article

The New Assassination Bureau: On the 'Robotic Turn' in Contemporary War

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 ...