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CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/josephferris76/6948970929/">Joseph Ferris</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>)

NOV 5, 2012 Article

Innovative Policies in the Middle Kingdom: A Chinese Nuclear Umbrella?

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 ...

Tapestry map by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/centralasian/5458355464/">Alighiero Boetti</a>.

NOV 5, 2012 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Forecasting the Future of Countries

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 ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51579195@N02/7937636052/in/photostream">Shapeways</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

NOV 1, 2012 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: 3D Printing Can Unlock Development Potential

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

CREDIT: &copy; 2012 <a href="http://janekratochvil.photoshelter.com/">Jane Kratochvil Photography</a>.

NOV 1, 2012 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Energy of Society: What's at Stake this Election

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 ...

OCT 23, 2012 Journal Online Exclusive

Elected Security Council Members: Power, Process, Purpose

Candidate countries engage in long and drawn-out campaigns to garner promises of support when it comes to the vote—promises that are undeclared and sometimes ...

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Flag_Of_The_People%27s_Mojahedin_Organization_of_Iran.png">MEK Flag</a>, accessed on Wikipedia

OCT 17, 2012 Article

MEK: When Terrorism Becomes Respectable

The Iranian group Mujahedin-e Khalq [MEK] has been on the U.S. global terrorist list since 1997. So just why has the U.S. State Department ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lecercle/3197053143/">Akshay Mahajan</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

OCT 15, 2012 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Rethinking Development Finance for City "Slums"

The Asian Coalition for Community Action is challenging the top-down Big Aid funding model by providing small grants to low-income communities for the initiatives of ...

OCT 12, 2012 Journal Online Exclusive

Finnegans Wake and Political Science Methods

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/national_museum_of_australia/5056220012/">National Museum of Australia</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

OCT 1, 2012 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Boat Migrants to Australia Deserve Their Refugee Rights

Asylum seekers who come to Australia by boat have been accused of jumping the queue in the immigration process, but are they really gaining an ...

OCT 1, 2012 Journal

Fall 2012 (26.3)

This issue features an essay by Ann Florini on the global governance of energy; articles by Janina Dill and Henry Shue on the undue moralization ...