Articles & Reports

JUN 15, 2012 • Article

Was the real action at the Rio+20 summit outside the negotiating hall, where civil society could share ideas horizontally?

JUN 8, 2012 • Article

According to opinion polls, the majority of Russians still favor Putin for president, despite the evidence  that his latest incumbency is a serious setback for ...

JUN 4, 2012 • Article

Putin is the man that many love to hate, and just three weeks into his new term, critics have heaped scorn on his ambitious economic ...

JUN 1, 2012 • Article

Mixing the principles of causality, vulnerability, and ability to pay into the negotiations over climate change adaptation is unnecessarily complicated. There are moral and political ...

MAY 31, 2012 • Article

Considered one of the new frontiers in iron ore mining, Sierra Leone has gone from total state collapse in the mid-1990s to one of ...

MAY 29, 2012 • Article

With a national government plagued by corruption and poisoned by dependence on oil money, state- and city-led development may be the best way for Nigeria ...

MAY 23, 2012 • Article

What is the role of the nation-state in a globalizing world? The need is not for a relinquishment of national identity per se, but for ...

MAY 22, 2012 • Article

Today, American supremacy is assumed rather than argued for: in an age of tremendous political division, it is a bipartisan first principle of foreign policy. ...