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The opening ceremonies, as seen on TV. <br>Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/deniscollette/2745796325/">Denis Collette</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

AUG 28, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: One Bed, Different Dreams

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 ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ezra/1589931148/">Derek</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

AUG 14, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Cogeneration Can Slash Carbon and Costs

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 ...

Flags of Russia and Georgia

AUG 13, 2008 Article

Russia and Georgia: A Collision Waiting to Happen

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 ...

Burmese monks protest the slow response to Cyclone Nargis. CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/northcountryboy/2505122369">Sean Ng</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

AUG 11, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Humanitarian Aid Politicized

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, ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/hleung/2108818972/">HKmPUA</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

AUG 11, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: The Greening of Islamic Politics

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 ...

Former Nike Missile base, photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/telstar/49075174/" target=_blank>Telstar Logistics </a>

AUG 8, 2008 Article

The New MAD World

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 ...

Detainees at Camp X-Ray. <br>DoD photo: Shane T. McCoy, U.S. Navy

AUG 6, 2008 Article

An American Detainee "Strategy"

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 ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/riacale/1351747614/">Zack Lee</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JUL 28, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: A United Nations Parliamentary Assembly Could Drive Global Innovation

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 ...

Icarus flew too close to the sun. Photo by <br><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/loriwright/185265674/">Lori Wright</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JUL 23, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Fuel Costs Clip Airline Wings

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 ...

Lost Celtic Tiger. Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/jaqian/308499768/">jaqian</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JUL 18, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Is the Celtic Tiger Dead?

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 ...