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JUL 21, 2009 Article

U.S.-Russian Arms Control Priorities

This set of four papers focuses on arms control in the context of the critical and evolving U.S.-Russia relationship.

JUL 21, 2009 Article

Possible Attributes of a New Russian-American Treaty on Strategic Offensive Weapons: The View from Russia

Should the START Treaty expire in December without a new treaty (or accord) that has counting rules and verification procedures spelled out, it will be ...

JUL 21, 2009 Article

Missile Defense: A Sphere of Competition or an Instrument for Jointly Combating the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Pavel S. Zolotarev argues that despite the good intentions of the newly-elected American and Russian presidents and the leadership of the two nations, it is ...

JUL 21, 2009 Article

Bargaining Chip or Gas Mask? Prospects for Missile Defense

John Isaacs and Travis Sharp review the history of missile defense since World War II in search of insights that can be applied to the ...

JUL 21, 2009 Article

A Guide to the Challenges Facing President Obama's Nuclear Abolition Agenda

Burgess Laird argues that the case for nuclear weapons abolition recently advanced by President Obama is built not on the familiar refrain of disarmament advocates ...

Julia Butterfly Hill tree-sitting in 2006. CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/borderhacker/167163914/">Mark Dixon</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JUL 20, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: "No Compromise in Defense of the Earth"

December 31, 2020 -- Dear Colleagues, Supporters, and Friends, I hereby resign as president of the Reputable Mainstream Environmental Lobbying Organization. The global political will necessary to ...

JUL 18, 2009 Article

Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism

Let me begin with a simple claim. We live today in a globalized world that challenges us morally. While globalization may be a fuzzy concept, ...

Jilbab fashion. Photo by <br><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rikie_rizza/3017806408/">Rikie Rizza</a>  (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>)

JUL 16, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Understanding Election Twitter

How does what happens online translate into pressure on leadership, and influence policy outcomes? This summer's major elections in India, Iran, and Indonesia show that ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ktylerconk/3189139667/">Kathleen Conklin</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JUL 8, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: American Sugar Policy Leaves a Sour Taste

As evidenced by the minor flap last week over the tariff provision that snuck into the American Clean Energy and Security Act, trade decisions are ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/soldiersmediacenter/777305759/in/photostream/" target=_blank">U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Tierney Nowland</a>

JUL 7, 2009 Article

A Humanitarian Assessment of the War in Iraq

The debates about withdrawing from Iraq have excluded what would seem to be a self-evident point of contention: how best to repair the damage that ...