Recent Articles
FEB 1, 2011 • Article
China: The Romance of Realpolitik (September/October 1989)
This article (written soon after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre) confronts the failure of the "China experts" in academe to penetrate the reality of ...
FEB 1, 2011 • Article
The Promise and Peril of an Independent Republic of South Sudan
Many ask, "Will the newly independent South Sudan become a failed state?" But the real question is, "Can North Sudan remain a viable state without ...
JAN 28, 2011 • Article
WikiLeaks: An Overview, Part I
The U.S. government is in an awkward position. How does it legally distinguish between WikiLeaks and the traditional media? Is Julian Assange, in fact, ...
JAN 20, 2011 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Latin America's China Challenge
China's growth has been a great boon to Latin America in the short-term. It is up to Latin American nations to translate these short-term gains ...
JAN 11, 2011 • Article
The Causes of the Financial Crisis
The main cause behind the recent financial crisis was the accumulation of hidden risks in the system. This was compounded by the agency problem, which ...
JAN 11, 2011 • Article
Kitengesa, Uganda: Happy Development
A series of inter-related projects in a Ugandan village show that small can be beautiful, particularly for women--and it all began with a community library.
DEC 14, 2010 • Article
Suicide Terror and the Preoccupation with Occupation
According to Robert Pape, suicide bombers the world over are not motivated by religion; they are all secular nationalists resisting foreign occupation. Is there really ...
DEC 14, 2010 • Article
Las Presidentas
A new era in Latin America or status quo in another form? While female politicians' success in Latin American elections is laudable, this trend does ...
DEC 3, 2010 • Journal
Women and States: Norms and Hierarchies in International Society by Ann E. Towns
This new work by Ann Towns is an intelligent and timely addition to interdisciplinary scholarship that is interested in the relationships between the status of ...