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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.

Israeli, Russian, and U.S. Flags

MAR 30, 2010 Article

Jackson-Vanik: a Bridge to the 20th Century

U.S. and Russian leaders and Jewish organizations all agree: the U.S. should "graduate" Russia from the JV amendment, which ties freedom of trade ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hamed/3636927440/">Hamed Saber</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

MAR 26, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: U.S. Pressures Oil Companies to Leave Iran

With nuclear diplomacy at a standstill, the U.S. government has been expanding its sanctions against Iran to include refined petroleum products and insurers.

Illustration by Dennis Doyle

MAR 25, 2010 Article

Global Economic Policy and Human Rights: Three Sites of Disconnection

In this critical post-financial crisis period, Margot Salomon of LSE underscores the demands that international human rights law place on a more ethical form of ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/theredproject/3673922879/">Michael Mandiberg</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>)

MAR 22, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Obama's "New" Trade Policy: What Happened to Multilateralism?

The Obama administration's new trade agenda shows little consideration for developing countries and may hurt the United States in the long run.