Recent Articles
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 ...
DEC 3, 2010 • Journal
Genocide: A Normative Account by Larry May
Larry May's "Genocide: A Normative Account" is not a study of genocide per se, but rather an attempt to draw attention to the conceptual and ...
DEC 3, 2010 • Journal
The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality by Ayelet Shachar
"The Birthright Lottery" puts forward an account of birthright citizenship as analogous to inherited property, and proposes a birthright privilege levy on citizenship inheritance that ...
DEC 2, 2010 • Journal
Implementing the Responsibility to Protect: Where Expectations Meet Reality [Full Text]
Scholars of RtoP need a much deeper understanding of both how norms evolve and the competing normative commitments that drive those who remain skeptical of ...