Articles & Reports

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, ...

AUG 11, 2008 • Article

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 ...

AUG 8, 2008 • Article

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 ...

AUG 6, 2008 • Article

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 ...

JUL 28, 2008 • Article

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 ...