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Adm. Mullen testifies at Senate Armed Services Committee  <br> CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thejointstaff/4325376893/in/set-72157623335956302/" target=_blank">DoD photo, Cherie Cullen</a>

MAY 4, 2010 Article

This Is about Leadership: The Circular Debate of the Military's Gay Ban

In August 2010, three months after writing this article, West Point Cadet Katherine Miller publicly announced she was gay and resigned from West Point, saying that "...

APR 30, 2010 Article

Rise of the Rest

The Council's "Rise of the Rest" project focuses not on decline of existing powers but on the emergence of others. The U.S. should accept ...

Map of Syria  (CIA Factbook)

APR 26, 2010 Article

Pursuing a "Syrian Strategy" for Arab-Israeli Peace

A Syrian-Israeli Peace Treaty brokered by the U.S. could create the conditions for the kind of confidence-building measures between Israel and the Palestinian National ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/noborder/2494723189/">Sara Prestianni</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

APR 21, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Fate of the Paperless

Detention centers are on the rise as a means to control illegal immigration, while reports of human rights abuse and rising financial costs call into ...

Presidents Obama, Abbas, and Prime Minister Netanyahu<br>CREDIT: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Trilateral" target="_blank">Official White House photo by Samantha Appleton</a>

APR 13, 2010 Article

Incentivizing Peace in the Middle East: A New Role for the United States

The issue in the Israel/Palestinian conflict is not a lack of desire for peace, but the political inability to achieve it. The basic contours ...

APR 9, 2010 Article

The Georgia-Russia War in South Ossetia: The Russian View

Published by the Moscow-based Center of Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, "The Tanks of August" is a must read, as it offers both factual and ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/colodio/2908606928/">Claude Estebe</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

APR 8, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Rage against Virtual Rape

It is up to the Japanese to decide what regulations the nation wants to prescribe for sex industry software.

Hatoyama. CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jannem/3862872687/">Janne Moren</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

APR 1, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Promises, Promises: The Two Faces of Japan's New Government

Contradictions within the Democratic Party of Japan and the Hatoyama cabinet threaten to upset the expected July upper house elections and lead to further political ...

APR 1, 2010 Journal

Spring 2010 (24.1)

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/zpeckler/3509493034/">Thomas Eakins</a> detail (PD).

MAR 30, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Organ and Human Trafficking Intersect

An international framework for ethical organ transplantation could enable countries to coordinate shared information and interdiction strategies for curbing the illegal transplant tourism market.