Recent Articles
AUG 19, 2010 • Article
Should We Stop the Next Genocide?
Should the United States, as the world's greatest military power, use its might to prevent the next outbreak of ethnic violence from turning into a ...
AUG 18, 2010 • Article
Is Peace Worth Fighting For?
Transcript of a speech at a August 18, 2010 Scottish Parliament’s Festival of Politics event, “Is Peace Worth Fighting For?“ “My remarks today are inspired not ...
AUG 13, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: A Chance to Dream
The Shanti Bhavan school helped erase my illiteracy through an education not confined to the pages of a textbook; an education demanding open-mindedness; an education ...
AUG 12, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Altered Genes and Their Vendors
The evidence on both sides of the genetic modification debate is inconclusive, but attentive regulation could ensure crop safety in developed and developing countries.
AUG 12, 2010 • Article
China's State Capitalism Poses Ethical Challenges
In China, robust growth is a good thing, as long as it doesn't undermine the leadership's monopoly hold on political power. The Chinese leadership will ...
JUL 26, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Diversifying Diplomacy
Independent Diplomat's goal of giving diplomatic assistance on a not-for-profit basis fills a niche in international politics and may broaden the understanding of diplomacy in ...
JUL 20, 2010 • Article
For Obama, Short-term Tactics, or Long-term Strategy on Iran?
By insisting on votes on sanctions against Iran, Obama may have sacrificed his strategic objective--to prevent the development of the Iranian bomb--for an ephemeral victory ...
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, ...
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 ...
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?