Recent Articles
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...