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CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lancecheungmedia/3718169683/in/photostream/">Lance Cheung</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JUL 19, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: A Renewable Energy and Efficiency Transformation

The Declaration of Support for an Efficient Renewable Energy Future calls for moving quickly to understand how a renewable power system can be optimized technically, ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/4710670727/">Duncan Davidson</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JUL 19, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Declaration of Support for an Efficient Renewable Energy Future

Fossil fuel business as usual courts ecological catastrophe, resource wars, failed states, and mass migration of the desperate. Ten prominent clean energy analysts, researchers, and ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/berlinlife/403947163/">ring2</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JUL 19, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Brain Scan Lie Detection

Brain scan data can be powerfully persuasive, but has the science behind it progressed far enough to warrant its use in the courtroom?

Painting of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il at Lake Baekdusan, sacred to all Koreans. Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/yeowatzup/2921982738/" target=_blank">Yeowatzup</a> (CC)

JUL 8, 2010 Article

The Two Koreas: Despite Nukes and Succession Issues, It's Status Quo

With a flurry of news about escalating tensions between North and South Korea, it might seem that the game has completely changed. But for Koreans ...

Illustration: Adam Niklewicz

JUL 7, 2010 Article

The Case for a Union: From the Fertile Crescent to the Silk Road

Authors Abtahi and Shoamanesh have a bold proposition: a multi-state, political-economic-security union that stretches from the Fertile Crescent to the Silk Road, connecting the Indian ...

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramananv/2523861065/" target=_blank">"Wilted"</a> by Krosstok (CC)

JUL 1, 2010 Article

The Bloom is off the Rose--and the Orange, and the Tulip

What went wrong with the "Color Revolutions" in Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan? It was a combination of excessive expectations of the new leaders, and some ...

JUL 1, 2010 Journal

Summer 2010 (24.2)

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/37degrees/3482554236/">Romel Jacinto</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JUN 30, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Migrant Detention Leads to Harm

Detention is costly in economic and human terms. If EU states wish to sustain their migration management policies, they will have to rely more on ...

JUN 30, 2010 Journal

Briefly Noted [Full Text]

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

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/artemuestra/2940823679/">artemuestra</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JUN 28, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Can Ethics Save Investors?

It is time for ethical conduct to graduate from being a cost of doing business associated with compliance, to a more prominent role as a ...