Recent Articles
SEP 21, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Under the Cover: Global Corruption Report 2009
Policy Innovations interviews Robin Hodess of Transparency International on her organization's brand new Global Corruption Report 2009, which this year focuses on corruption and the private ...
SEP 14, 2009 • Article
Japan: The Power of Efficiency
Japan's energy intensity has improved by 37 percent since 1973, and its oil dependency has dropped by 30 points, making it one of the largest, most energy-efficient economies ...
SEP 11, 2009 • Journal
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
SEP 11, 2009 • Journal
National Responsibility and Global Justice by David Miller
Miller builds on his seminal work on national identity and special duties to co-nationals to carve out a position on such issues as global poverty ...
SEP 11, 2009 • Journal
The Rise of the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the Global War on Terror by Manfred B. Steger
Faced with the political, economic, and social challenges of a globalized planet, are we bereft of any coherent political guideposts or do we still possess ...
SEP 11, 2009 • Journal
What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It by Thomas G. Weiss
Drawing on his own UN experience and studying it from outside, Weiss clears away a lot of the debris of superficial critiques to uncover the ...
SEP 11, 2009 • Journal
On Torture Edited by Thomas C. Hilde
This edited collection is an excellent addition to the literature on the torture policy of the Bush administration during its war on terror. The contributors ...
SEP 11, 2009 • Journal
The Right to Relocation: Disappearing Island Nations and Common Ownership of the Earth
Risse is concerned with humanity's common ownership of the earth, which has implications for a range of global problems. In particular, it helps illuminate the ...
SEP 11, 2009 • Journal
Justice and the Convention on Biological Diversity
By legislating for a system of justice-in-exchange covering nonhuman biological resources in preference to a free-for-all situation, the Convention on Biological Diversity provides a small ...
SEP 11, 2009 • Journal
Treaty Norms and Climate Change Mitigation
UNFCCC norms tightly constrain the range of acceptable agreements for the distribution of burdens to mitigate climate change, restricting us to two viable guiding principles: ...