Recent Articles
JUN 25, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: U Made an Illegal U-Turn
The South Korean metropolis of New Songdo is slated to be the world's largest "ubiquitous city," with tracking devices everywhere. The entrenchment of social surveillance ...
JUN 24, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Ready or Not, Here Comes the World
More than one country that is about to host a prestigious sporting event is facing international criticism over human rights and diplomacy.
JUN 20, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Big Beer Brewing
Many beer lovers fear that industry consolidation will lead to homogenization -- a process some deride as "lagerization."
JUN 18, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: It's Like Oil, But Different
Water shortages could be as lethal in the twenty-first century as terrorism and the relentless exhaustion of energy reserves, but the U.S. presidential candidates ...
JUN 16, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Speaking Fairly
The rise of English as a global lingua franca is one of the most striking developments of the last few decades, but the use of ...
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin edited by George Crowder and Henry Hardy
This is a collection of 13 essays, all but two of which are newly commissioned, covering Berlin's multifaceted oeuvre as much as a single book can. ...
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy by J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley C. Parks
Part of what makes Roberts and Parks's argument unusual and original is not the end point—that ultimately we will all need to radically cut ...
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Who Owes What to the Very Poor? edited by Thomas Pogge
All the contributors to this impressive volume agree that freedom from poverty is a basic human right, but they differ in how best to argue ...
JUN 13, 2008 • Journal
Bioethics and Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of Medicine and War by Michael L. Gross
This book is important as an analysis of some of the least-discussed dilemmas related to warfare. But its value extends beyond its novel subject matter ...