Articles & Reports

FEB 20, 2008 • Article

Two recent energy deals are the latest moves in the Great Game for energy security, with the world's main powers jockeying for access to resources ...

FEB 19, 2008 • Article

Today's globalization may be causing more stress to our planet than we realize, and the food industry is just one example. When it comes to ...

FEB 14, 2008 • Article

The traditional flower market is a thing of the past. Flowers are now imported from all over the world, creating trade-offs for the ethical consumer.

FEB 13, 2008 • Article

The climate crisis requires better tools to compare the true environmental value of greenhouse gas reduction versus sequestration, so that we know whether to invest ...

FEB 7, 2008 • Article

The international community could act to stop the genocide in Darfur. For example, it could pressure China and enact an EU trade and investment moratorium. ...

FEB 5, 2008 • Article

Like many tools of globalization, the power of the Internet can cut both ways. What then is the solution to extremism on the Internet? Paradoxically, ...

FEB 1, 2008 • Article

As Fashion Week gets underway in New York City, it is worth asking where models' standards of beauty come from.

FEB 1, 2008 • Article

Wenar argues that a trust-and-tariff mechanism could be used against countries that insist on buying resources from the worst regimes. The revenues would go to ...

FEB 1, 2008 • Article

Calculations show that oil companies illicitly transport into the U.S. over 600 million barrels of oil each year. This is 12.7 percent of U.S. oil ...

FEB 1, 2008 • Article

Customary practices left over from the era of absolute state sovereignty still give property rights to whoever can exert coercive control over a population. This ...