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DEC 15, 2009 Journal

A Few Words on Mill, Walzer, and Nonintervention

Comparing Mill's "Non-Intervention" and Walzer's "Just and Unjust Wars" (1977) links two classic statements on just wars of intervention. Doyle concludes that interventionist arguments should go ...

DEC 15, 2009 Journal

The Moral Standing of States Revisited

"The Moral Standing of States" is the title of an essay Michael Walzer wrote in response to four critics of the theory of nonintervention defended ...

DEC 15, 2009 Journal

Introduction [Full Text]

This symposium is comprised of three key articles from a 2008 conference to honor Michael Walzer. Each article discusses one of the most fundamental aspects of ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/limonada/217721146/">Emilie Eagan (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

DEC 8, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Building Sustainability for PlaNYC

If New York's Greener, Greater Buildings Plan becomes law this week it will be a significant step toward urban environmental sustainability. Can the policies transfer ...

"Stethoscope" by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/vitualis/137213564/" target=_blank">vitualis</a>, (CC)

DEC 4, 2009 Article

Rationing Healthcare? We're Already Doing It

The question today is not whether to start rationing healthcare. We are already rationing, based in large part on the ability to pay. The question ...

Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcnelson/2942561975/">Adam Nelson</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

NOV 30, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Micro-donations Can Make a Massive Difference in Global Health

Policy Innovations talks with Bernard Salome, managing director of the Millennium Foundation, about raising funds for global health through small donations made when people purchase ...

"Semester at Sea in Istanbul" by Zornitsa Stoyanova-Yerburgh

NOV 25, 2009 Article

Prize-Winning Student Essay: Globalization and Opportunity

Katie Carns, winner of the Carnegie Council/Semester at Sea Student Competition, reflects on what she learned about other countries--and the U.S.--on her ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpeepz/220631940/">Jay Peeples</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

NOV 25, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Contested Governance in a Global-Corporate World

Can nation-states, global corporations, and civil society alliances stabilize in a new form of effective global governance?

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/su-jung/2198606281/">Moto Pony</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

NOV 17, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Will China Emerge Greener from the Global Economic Downturn?

The economic downturn presents China with a historic opportunity to reorient its economy to a more stable and sustainable path, but emerging evidence from the ...

Yukio Hatoyama. Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldeconomicforum/3886448885/">WEF</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

NOV 13, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: A Close Relationship Requires Compromise

The most important accomplishment of President Obama's trip to Japan would be to reassure Prime Minister Hatoyama that the tensions around Marine Corps Air Station ...