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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, ...

MAR 11, 2010 Journal

Democracy in a Pluralist Global Order: Corporate Power and Stakeholder Representation

Global democratization cannot be achieved by simply replicating familiar democratic institutions on a global scale. We must explore alternative institutional means for establishing democratic institutions ...

MAR 11, 2010 Journal

Introduction [Full Text]

If global democratization is to advance beyond the current point, it is necessary to confront the practical challenge of institutional design: How might ideals of ...

MAR 11, 2010 Journal

The Politics of Punishing Terrorists [Full Text]

Debates about trying and punishing terrorists reveal how the failure to construct a shared normative consensus in international criminal justice continues to bedevil the international ...

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 ...