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CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/julien_harneis/1373309049/">Julien Harneis</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

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.

Western Union office in <br>Flagstaff, Arizona. Photo by <br><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/girl-inchoate/752388718/">Dawn M. Armfield</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

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.

cover image, The Difference Makers, by Sandra Waddock

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.

CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/arkntina/241070625/">RK & Tina</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

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 ...