Recent Articles
FEB 13, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: In Pursuit of a Carbon-Free Economy
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
A Central African Affair: Chad's Insurgency Highlights Ongoing Genocide in Darfur
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
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Typing TERROR in a Crowded Chat
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
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Model Standards
As Fashion Week gets underway in New York City, it is worth asking where models' standards of beauty come from.
FEB 1, 2008 • Article
The Resource Curse: A Clean Hands Trust for the People of Sudan (Part 4)
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
The Resource Curse: Stopping the Flow of Stolen Resources (Part 3)
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
The Resource Curse: Might Makes the Right to Sell? (Part 2)
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 ...
FEB 1, 2008 • Article
The Resource Curse: Property Rights and the Resource Curse (Part 1)
Because of a major flaw in the international trade system, consumers in rich countries unknowingly buy stolen goods every day. The raw materials used to ...
JAN 31, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Melting Pot, the Salad Bowl, and the Confucian Ideal
Many have argued we are entering a multipolar world. Yet, this competition will not simply take place in terms of varying approaches to foreign policy ...
JAN 31, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: The Fair Trade Future
The Fair Trade movement is a promising vehicle for alternative globalization, yet its dramatic growth has fueled a number of new challenges. Has Fair Trade's ...