Recent Articles
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.