Recent Articles
OCT 14, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Saving the Congo
The scale of Congo's resource curse, weak governance, and civil war calls for policy changes beyond anything typically contemplated by the international community.
OCT 14, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Remittances Take a Hit
A weak dollar, a flattening globe, and resurgent inflation are decreasing financial transfers from overseas workers, commonly known as remittances.
OCT 2, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Difference Makers
Sandra Waddock's book "The Difference Makers" tells the stories of nearly two dozen innovators who pioneered the corporate responsibility movement over the past quarter century.
OCT 2, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Laws Gone Wild in Ecuador
Ecuador is the first country to constitutionally enact ecosystem rights, expanding the mandate of environmental protection beyond personal injury and corporate license to pollute.
SEP 26, 2008 • Journal
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
SEP 26, 2008 • Journal
Realism Reconsidered: The Legacy of Hans J. Morgenthau in International Relations edited by Michael C. Williams
This timely book takes a critical look at the history of scholarship on Morgenthau's formulation of political realism, with an eye toward synthesizing his theories ...
SEP 26, 2008 • Journal
Taking on the World's Repressive Regimes: The Ford Foundation's International Human Rights Policies and Practices by William Korey
William Korey has done a great service for both those who champion and follow the realization of human rights internationally and those who wish to ...
SEP 26, 2008 • Journal
Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature by David Schlosberg
This volume is political theory at its best, providing an invaluable review of the contemporary literature, subverting traditional political categories and distinctions, and suggesting new ...
SEP 26, 2008 • Journal
The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought by Cemil Aydin
Aydin challenges popular assumptions that non-Western ideological movements are always hostile to Western values, on the one hand, and that such movements emerge as a ...
SEP 26, 2008 • Journal
Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village by Daniel Deudney
An important insight, with consequences for foreign policy and the practice of world politics, is that in the "global village" changing technology invites and even ...