Recent Articles
MAR 12, 2010 • Article
Toyota and the End of Japan
Toyota's fall from grace caps a 20-year economic malaise that is infecting the popular culture, manifesting itself in a preference for staying home, avoiding risk.
MAR 12, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Basic Income Grants Alleviate Poverty in Namibia
Promising results from a pilot program in Namibia indicate that basic income grants may help poor regions jolt the poverty cycle with jobs and education.
MAR 12, 2010 • Article
Is Japan Giving Up?
Just as the success of Toyota Motor was a symbol of Japan's confidence on the world stage in the 1980s, the automobile company's recent troubles ...
MAR 11, 2010 • Journal
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
MAR 11, 2010 • Journal
War in an Age of Risk by Christopher Coker
This book adds several new elements to the relation between war and the risk society. They are anxiety, complexity, and the future, writes reviewer Claudia ...
MAR 11, 2010 • Journal
The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days by Karen Greenberg
The lesson of the first 100 days of Guantanamo is not one of how truth and justice triumphed, but of how efficiently a bureaucratic machine on ...
MAR 11, 2010 • Journal
The Global Commonwealth of Citizens: Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy by Daniele Archibugi
This book provides not only an exhaustive treatment of the benefits and drawbacks of cosmopolitan democracy, but also the most detailed statement to date of ...
MAR 11, 2010 • Journal
Terrorism, Resistance, and the Idea of "Unlawful Combatancy"
When faced with security threats from terrorism and other forms of nonstate political violence, how should liberal-democratic states respond? Finlay discusses books by Tamar Meisels, ...
MAR 11, 2010 • Journal
Deliberation and Global Criminal Justice: Juries in the International Criminal Court
Juries could bolster the ICC's legitimacy by promoting public trust, increasing procedural fairness, foregrounding deliberative reasoning, and embodying democratic values. ICC juries would present novel ...
MAR 11, 2010 • Journal
Public Accountability and the Public Sphere of International Governance
Steffek advocates a return to a conception of public accountability as accountability to the wider public. He investigates the prospects for this beyond the state, ...