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CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/emagineart/4742089272/">e-Magine Art</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JAN 14, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Boosting Access to Medicine

As cases from Indonesia to India have demonstrated, affordable drugs are often unavailable to the people who need them at the times they need them ...

Illustration from "Vision 20/20", U.S. Space Command, 1997

JAN 12, 2009 Article

An Agenda for Obama: End America's Counterproductive Pursuit of Space Dominance

It's time to go back to President Eisenhower's original goal of space for peaceful purposes and ditch America's position that it has the right to ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/trentstrohm/2954636898/">Trent Strohm</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JAN 9, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: China's Diplomacy Contradicts Power Politics

Beijing's patient approach toward Taiwan has become an integral part of its global strategy, one characterized by confidence and an emphasis on using non-military instruments ...

Deng Xiaoping: "It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice." Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/kevinsteele/85925031/">Kevin Steele</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JAN 8, 2009 Article

China Rediscovers Ethics in Foreign Policy

As the Chinese gradually rediscover the need to introduce ethical considerations into their foreign policy, what will those considerations be?

DEC 18, 2008 Journal

Humanitarian Intervention and the Distribution of Sovereignty in International Law

Legal debates about humanitarian intervention tend to assume that its legitimacy is irrelevant to its legality, while political theorists often assume the inverse. This paper ...

DEC 18, 2008 Journal

Norms, Minorities, and Collective Choice Online

Building on case studies of Wikipedia and the Daily Kos, this essay argues that different kinds of rules shape relations between members of the majority ...

DEC 18, 2008 Journal

On Promoting Democracy [Full Text]

The first question that we have to ask about promoting democracy is the question of agency: Who are the promoters? Most recent arguments have focused ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/steviezj/248886048/">Stephen Jones</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

DEC 18, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: The New Science of Sustainable Dynamics

The concept of sustainability is used as a policy guide today, but beyond this important sense of applied ethics sustainability must also become a science.

Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/mybigtrip/6111406/">Natmandu</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

DEC 18, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Time Out

As vital as it has become to modern life, keeping track of Coordinated Universal Time is no mean feat.

DEC 18, 2008 Journal

Briefly Noted

This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.