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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 ...

<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mavi_Marmara_side.jpg" target=_blank">MV Mavi Marmara, May 22, 2010</a> by Free Gaza Movement (CC)

JUN 28, 2010 Article

Legal Scholars Weigh in on Gaza Blockade, Flotilla Deaths

Putting aside overheated rhetoric and pseudo-legal analyses, security affairs writer Erik Schechter asks a group of international law experts about the blockade of the Gaza ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kkseema/464236751/">Seema K K</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JUN 23, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Simulating Environmental Diplomacy

Incorporating environmental issues in conflict resolution may have positive psychological effects on the willingness of parties to cooperate.

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bswise/4457290211/">B. S. Wise</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JUN 22, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Pragmatic Overdose

The Obama administration is trying to redefine and energize U.S. global development policy, but so far their vision lacks creativity and clear ethics.

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/intial-t/2676493092/">Lucy</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JUN 21, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Student Attitudes Surveyed

There is a fine line between self-esteem and self-absorption. It is hard to tell which side Generation Y is on, but the IBM Global Student ...

JUN 14, 2010 Journal

Briefly Noted

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

JUN 14, 2010 Journal

Renegotiation of the Just War Tradition and the Right to War in the Twenty-First Century by Cian O'Driscoll

What were the primary justifications for the Iraq War, and how do they relate to classical and contemporary just war thought? Identifying three such justifications—...

JUN 14, 2010 Journal

Preemption: Military Action and Moral Justification Edited by Henry Shue and David Rodin

Surveying a variety of perspectives on the uses and limits of preemption, this edited volume coalesces around three key themes: differences in just war terminology ...

JUN 14, 2010 Journal

A Cosmopolitanism of Nations: Giuseppe Mazzini's Writings on Democracy, Nation Building, and International Relations Edited by Stefano Recchia and Nadia Urbinati

Editors Stefano Recchia and Nadia Urbinati assemble a new collection of original texts by Giuseppe Mazzini, a 19th century Italian activist-philosopher who, despite being almost ...

JUN 14, 2010 Journal

The Gender of Reparations: Unsettling Sexual Hierarchies While Redressing Human Rights Violations Edited by Ruth Rubio-Marin

This edited collection provides a gender-sensitive analysis of reparations programs in transitional and postconflict societies, examining the gendered nature of violence during armed conflict and ...