Articles & Reports

AUG 14, 2008 • Article

At home or on the city level, cogeneration of electricity and heat is one of the most promising means of using existing technologies to increase ...

AUG 13, 2008 • Article

In the war between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia the inevitable inclination is to assign black and white, blame and innocence. The truth is ...

AUG 11, 2008 • Article

Humanitarian aid is often viewed as a political commodity, no matter how well intentioned the donors may be. As swelling urban centers make disasters deadlier, ...

AUG 11, 2008 • Article

For centuries, Muslims considered Indonesia to be Islam's most distant outpost. Yet this diffuse country with multiple identities is leading the way in the greening ...

AUG 8, 2008 • Article

The current system may be Cold War Lite in which noncooperation is the new mutual assured destruction (MAD). Yet if we fail to cooperate, our ...

AUG 6, 2008 • Article

Treatment of detainees has severely damaged America's reputation, yet there is still no true strategy for dealing with them as part of an overall counter-terrorism ...

JUL 28, 2008 • Article

As a hinge between parliaments, civil society, the UN, and governments, a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly could become an important catalyst for the reform and ...

JUL 23, 2008 • Article

The rising price of jet fuel has the global airline industry struggling to cut costs and stay aloft, but it also incentivizes the development of ...

JUL 18, 2008 • Article

Nearly twenty-five years of Irish economic growth came to an end in June. Now policymakers must scramble to prevent a return to the hopeless, stagnant ...

JUL 14, 2008 • Article

Based on the true story of a Rwandan hotel manager who saved the lives of over 1,200 refugees during the 1994 genocide, this film points blame at ...