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Facing off against Ivana Furtado in Goa. <br>Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/eustaquio/2186779337/">Eustaquio Santimano</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

FEB 21, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Chess Takes World

When people think of chess, they usually think of Russia. But chess excellence has now gone global: The current World Champion is from India, and ...

Red Square, by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/89446022@N00/1277004498/">Paolo Crosetto</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

FEB 20, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Russia and the New Great Game

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 ...

Tuna sushi. Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ulteriorepicure/119425113/">ulterior epicure</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

FEB 19, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Trouble with Tuna

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 ...

Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/140230895/">Thomas Hawk</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

FEB 14, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Flowers for Sale

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.

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gorillaradio/">Sebastiano Pitruzzello</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

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 ...

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Long-Days-Dying-Critical-Genocide/dp/0978043146/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202419807&sr=8-1" target=_blank">A Long Day's Dying</a> by Eric Reeves

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. ...

Damascus Internet <br>cafe. Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/joshhough/431346700">Josh <br>Hough</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

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, ...

Fierce fur. Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/artcomments/379716130/in/set-72157594517665081/">Peter Duhon</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

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.

Darfur refugee camp. CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/knobil/66824893/in/set-1441812/">Mark Knobil</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en-us">CC</a>).

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 ...

U.S. Secretary of State Rice and President Obiang,<br> Equatorial Guinea CREDIT: <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Secretary_Rice_and_President_Obiang.jpg" target=_blank>U.S. State Dept</a>

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 ...