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MAR 3, 2010 Journal Online Exclusive

Michael Doyle on Nonintervention and the Responsibility to Protect

What circumstances justify overriding sovereignty? Michael Doyle discusses the difficult questions surrounding nonintervention and the "unanimous revolution" of 2005, which led to the new norm known ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28876688@N03/2697297072/">Marissa Orton (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

MAR 1, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Public Procurement with a Conscience

Although efforts to adopt decent labor standards through free trade agreements are stymied on the international level, a network of activists are working to make ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/julien_harneis/2858287885/in/pool-democraticrepublicofcongo/">Julien Harneis</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

FEB 24, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Confronting Culture in Congo

It is high time the international community confront the elephant in the room when talking about Congo and violence against women worldwide -- culture.

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/theverypage/2469440713/">Joshua Heineman</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

FEB 22, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Future of Capitalism and Danger of Returning to Business as Usual

When it comes to making sense of international finance and economics, the era of so-called scientific certainties is over. To address the structural challenges the ...

Satchmo in Cairo. CREDIT: United States Department of State (PD).

FEB 20, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Evolution of Revolution

Revolution is hard work, and lethal. Social media has a communicative role to play in the sophisticated design of systems that will undermine human suffering ...

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization

FEB 18, 2010 Article

Good Neighbors? The Shanghai Cooperation Organization

The West has largely dismissed the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as some kind of empty anti-U.S., anti-NATO rhetorical flourish, writes David Speedie. Yet in fact ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/djringer/274454009">David Ringer</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

FEB 11, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Defining Environmental Migrants

As the world attempts to solve the growth in climate migrants and refugees, accurate and legally justifiable definitions will be a crucial first step.

Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wonderferret/1346167428/">wonderferret</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

FEB 9, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Obama's Grade on Trade: B

Beyond the uncertain fate of trade agreements left over from the Bush years, President Obama has yet to implement the promises for trade reform he ...

Manioc planted on a steep slope. CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/globalvoyager/2873947932/">Nick Hobgood</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

FEB 9, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: A Permaculture Strategy for Haiti

Geoff Lawton of the Permaculture Research Institute discusses how to strategize and deploy sustainable local food production across Haiti as part of earthquake relief and ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thepatersonsphotos/1460346612/">Taylor Dundee</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

FEB 5, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Taking the Waves

An innovative tidal power installation off the coast of Scotland could help demonstrate the ocean's potential for delivering renewable energy.