Recent Articles
JUL 2, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Institutional Trappings
The institutionalization of religion seems symptomatic of the human tendency to mistrust our own intuitions, which can result in an abdication of responsibility.
JUL 2, 2009 • Article
The Two-headed Problem of Asian Hydropolitics: Security and Scarcity
With the Tibetan plateau serving as a third pole of available water, and the rift widening between China and the Dalai Lama's government in exile, ...
JUN 30, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Mozambique: The "Poster Child" Under Review
A new war is being waged on Mozambique's environment. The forests are being destroyed by slash and burn agriculture, firewood and charcoal production, and over-harvesting ...
JUN 24, 2009 • Article
Leadership as Practical Ethics
What does one need to know to be a leader in the field of public policy? Joel Rosenthal argues for the centrality of ethics as ...
JUN 24, 2009 • Journal
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
JUN 24, 2009 • Journal
Embedded Cosmopolitanism: Duties to Strangers and Enemies in a World of ‘Dislocated Communities’ by Toni Erskine
The ongoing debate about the importance of promoting an idea of shared human identity that is not mediated by any personal connection, particularly in times ...
JUN 24, 2009 • Journal
Defending Humanity: When Force is Justified and Why by George Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin
The authors seek a legal foundation for humanitarian intervention without Security Council authorization squarely within the UN Charter's Article 51, which grants UN members an "inherent ...
JUN 24, 2009 • Journal
On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society by Andrew Hurrell
"This is one of the finest books on the normative dimension of global governance published in the past decade," writes reviewer Samuel Makinda. "[It] should ...
JUN 24, 2009 • Journal
The Refugee in International Society: Between Sovereigns by Emma Haddad
How is it that within a couple of short decades refugees in European public perception went from being the archetypal "heroes" of the international system ...