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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 ...

Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnmueller/3663378200/">John Mueller</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

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.

Lake Nam Tso, Tibet. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/seyerce/329441093/" target="_blank">Ernie R</a>

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, ...

JUL 1, 2009 Journal

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