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FEB 7, 2012 • Article
3rd Prize Undergraduate Category, "Making a Difference" Essay Contest, 2011
"What is an ecologically sustainable community? How do we facilitate the evolution of such communities? Can we bring the mass of our consumer culture-driven population ...
FEB 7, 2012 • Article
1st Prize Undergraduate Category, "Making a Difference" Essay Contest, 2011
Our conventional understanding of sustainability usually puts human needs first. What is needed is a balancing test that will consider a wider range of factors, ...
FEB 7, 2012 • Article
1st Prize Postgraduate and Teacher Category, "Making a Difference" Essay Contest, 2011
My students are always shocked to realize that the global environment is one interconnected system. We have only one ocean mass, one land, and one ...
FEB 3, 2012 • Article
Russia Bulletin (2012): Russia Bulletin, Issue 2
David Speedie examines Russia's position on Iran; the upcoming Russian elections, including the Moscow demonstrations and the West's attitude towards them;and Jackson-Vanik and U....
JAN 18, 2012 • Article
The Strategic Use of Electoral Mismanagement in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The November 2011 elections were a historic opportunity to begin rebuilding the fragile DRC state. But as this first-hand account shows, evidence suggests that power politics ...
JAN 9, 2012 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: An Opportunity in Myanmar
Myanmar is ripe for social and economic innovation. A decent work and social protection agenda, combined with an industrial strategy, would help during its political ...
DEC 21, 2011 • Article
What to do? Choices and Trade-offs in Japan's Post-Fukushima Energy Policy
The Fukushima disaster has caused a backlash against nuclear power. But can Japan maintain a nuclear-free society without risk of rolling blackouts? Are energy security, ...
DEC 15, 2011 • Journal
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
DEC 15, 2011 • Journal
Global Governance and the UN: An Unfinished Journey by Thomas G. Weiss and Ramesh Thakur
This book identifies "gaps" in world order and the ways that the UN has evolved to manage those gaps, albeit in a somewhat ad hoc ...
DEC 15, 2011 • Journal
Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference by Jane Burbank and Fredrick Cooper
This impressive volume significantly contributes to our understanding of imperial politics and dynamics and of the way they continue to shape history. The authors provide ...