Articles & Reports

SEP 12, 2008 • Article

Government and NGO efforts have helped to rehabilitate East Timor's martial arts youth gangs in the wake of election violence and the 2006 riots.

SEP 10, 2008 • Article

Improved communication and translation between people will deprive nation-states of their raison d'etre.

SEP 9, 2008 • Article

Developing a fair system for sharing Iraqi oil revenues will ensure that no one can aspire to be the next Saddam Hussein.

SEP 5, 2008 • Article

Policymakers have two main concerns when it comes to ethanol: the effect of demand on food prices, and the environmental benefits. While families were sharing ...

AUG 29, 2008 • Article

The nation-state is an anachronistic myth which should be shed once and for all, declares Devin Stewart. Gvosdev and Andelman disagree.

AUG 28, 2008 • Article

At last, the young girls who are worshiped as living goddesses in Nepal are now awarded basic human rights by the state.

AUG 28, 2008 • Article

Seeing the Olympics as a watershed event, Japanese commentators have speculated about a "post-Olympic" China, and their prognoses are generally darker than the more optimistic ...

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, ...