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APR 6, 2011 Journal

Face Reality? After You!--A Call for Leadership on Climate Change

Humanity's so far leaderless approach to dealing with rapidly accelerating climate change embodies a profoundly tragic catch-22 that has, among other twists and contradictions, transmuted ...

APR 6, 2011 Journal

Middle-Ground Ethics: Can One Be Politically Realistic Without Being a Political Realist? [Full Text]

Thinking about international affairs has oscillated between idealism and realism throughout the modern period. Moralists continue to search for a way to combine what is ...

APR 6, 2011 Journal

From the Editor [Full Text]

Twenty-five years ago the Carnegie Council published the first issue of Ethics & International Affairs with the aim of addressing head-on the intersection of these two ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/irinphotos/4437447117/">IRIN photos</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

APR 5, 2011 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Valid Solutions for Malnutrition

Health and nutrition pioneer Steve Collins is building a social enterprise to battle severe acute malnutrition with ready-to-use therapeutic foods grown and manufactured in the ...

Refugee Camp, Ivory Coast. CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fleshmanpix/5552558271/in/photostream/" target=_blank">Mike Fleshman</a>

APR 1, 2011 Article

April 2011 or April 1994? Seventeen Years Later, Libya is to Ivory Coast as Bosnia was to Rwanda

While all eyes are focused on Libya, we may be headed towards a bloodbath in Ivory Coast similar to that in Rwanda in April 1994. The ...

APR 1, 2011 Journal

Spring 2011 (25.1)

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/horasis/5223479577/">Richter Frank-Jurgen</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

MAR 28, 2011 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Zhang Yue: A Call for Discipline in a World Out of Control

Air conditioning pioneer Zhang Yue has bold ideas for energy efficiency, sustainable buildings, and corporate culture: discipline today to preserve life in the future.

MAR 24, 2011 Article

Rahim Kanani Interviews Joel Rosenthal

Interview in World Affairs Commentary by RAHIM KANANI. RAHIM KANANI: As you observe U.S. foreign policy in the context of the recent and continued ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/embajadaeeuu-chile/5547487895/">U.S. Embassy Santiago, Chile</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

MAR 24, 2011 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Obama's Tricky Trip to El Salvador

Coming into office, Obama seemed to be in tune with Latin America in terms of economic policy, but the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations indicate an about-face.

Canadian Tar Sands Dump Truck. Photo by Evan O'Neil

MAR 21, 2011 Article

Canadian Tar Sands: There's No Such Thing as Ethical Oil (or Nuclear Power)

After the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and now the nuclear meltdown in Japan, it should be clear that oil and nuclear ...