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NOV 22, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Kongjian Yu: The Art of Survival

Landscape architect Kongjian Yu is pioneering energy efficient and spiritually enriching designs to reconnect China's rapid urbanization to the land.

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kkoshy/3646793728/">Koshy Koshy</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

NOV 19, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Saving the Last Tiger Strongholds

An additional $35 million per year for population monitoring, stronger law enforcement, and community organizing could enable tiger numbers to double in their last 42 strongholds.

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thorius/4281017873/">Tor Paulin</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

NOV 12, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Rare Earths Diplomacy

The world should expect China to leverage its dominance in rare earth elements to climb up the manufacturing value chain and build green technologies in ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/anaxila/508751871/">anaxila</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

NOV 2, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Peer-to-Peer Microfinance Empowers Young Entrepreneurs

United Youth Development Organization facilitates peer-to-peer microlending between young people to tap their energy and innovation for sustainable entrepreneurship and development.

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jliba/3496259672/">Josh Libatique</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

OCT 29, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Untapped Potential of Japanese Civil Society

Civil society in Japan is far more vibrant than it was 20 years ago, yet a discouraging regulatory environment continues to stifle the sector's potential.

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adforce1/4200107971">William Cho</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

OCT 28, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Welcome to the Urban Revolution

We must become masters of a sustainable, just, and ecological urbanism writes Jeb Brugmann in his analysis of how the advantages of urban settlement are ...

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OCT 21, 2010 Article

Ukraine: Reset to a Future of Strength

The "reset button" between Washington and Moscow, far from leaving our former Soviet allies in the cold, has enabled a country like Ukraine to pursue ...

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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 ...