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Security camera, friend or foe? Photo by <br><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/32557536/">Thomas Hawk</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

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 ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/nadio/818855894/">nadi0</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

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.

Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/smallcommabig/1630615364/">Michael Brenton</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

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."

African women collecting <br>muddy waters. Photo <br>courtesy of the <a href="http://www.studentmovementusa.org/" target="_blank">Student <br>Movement for Real Change</a>.

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 ...

Nunavut stop sign in English and Inuktitut. CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/mafic/8930067/">Patrick Smillie</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

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 ...