Recent Articles
JAN 21, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Is Ethical Capitalism Possible?
How can business models become more sustainable? Fortunately, global human civilization has all the moral tools it needs.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.