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OCT 19, 2010 Article

Defence Review is an Opportunity, not a Threat, to our Military

Britain's military capacity is likely to shrink following the soon-to-be-released strategic defence and security review. But many of the changes most feared by the military ...

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OCT 15, 2010 Article

The European Union: Still a Global Player?

To the casual observer, it may be hard to see what holds EU members together, writes Stoyanova-Yerburgh. It is no surprise then that the EU, ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/prashant_zi/281907152/">Prashant Zi</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

OCT 13, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Recycling Global Imbalances

Is the United States at long last getting serious about global imbalances, or are we risking currency wars that can end in unmitigated disaster for ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mon_oeil/1948934316/">Chris de Rham</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

OCT 12, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: The Missing MDG

Access to sustainable, affordable, and clean energy sources underpins the ability to realize all the Millennium Development Goals.

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OCT 7, 2010 Article

Arms Control and the New Strategic Concept

As NATO leaders seek to agree upon a new Strategic Concept, there appear to be both new opportunities and challenges in applying arms control as ...

Gas drilling sites dot the Utah landscape.

OCT 7, 2010 Article

Shale Gas Goes Global

Shale gas reserves are being explored on nearly every continent, with the United States leading the way in the controversial drilling practice called hydraulic fracturing ...

OCT 1, 2010 Journal

Fall 2010 (24.3)

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ingmar/3933912349/">Ingmar Zahorksy</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

SEP 29, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Reconstituting Nepal

Successful state-building in Nepal may require the state to compromise in the short term with the morally arbitrary entities that provide services in the villages ...

SEP 28, 2010 Journal

Briefly Noted

This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.

SEP 28, 2010 Journal

Carl Schmitt and the Politics of Hostility, Violence and Terror by Elizabeth Frazer

Gabriella Slomp's "Carl Schmitt and the Politics of Hostility, Violence and Terror" examines Schmitt's work as a whole, but sets out in particular to draw ...