Recent Articles
NOV 28, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Tapping Partnerships for Drinkable Water
About 1.2 billion people live without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, a number that will certainly grow without continued pressure for innovative ...
NOV 27, 2007 • Article
Hu's on First?
China has greatly stepped up its diplomatic, trade, and aid efforts in Southeast Asia, write Josh Kurlantzick and Devin Stewart. But it still has a ...
NOV 20, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Salvaging Peace with Syria
The geography, demographics, and environment of the Golan Heights make it suitable for environmental peace-building. Putting it on the agenda at the upcoming Middle East ...
NOV 19, 2007 • Article
Cap and Trade vs. Carbon Tax
What's the difference between taxing carbon emissions and a market-based system of cap and trade, asks Matthew Hennessey of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research? ...
NOV 19, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Cap and Trade vs. Carbon Tax
What's the difference between taxing carbon emissions and a market-based system of cap and trade? Which approach will more effectively reduce emissions? Which is fairer?
NOV 16, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Selling Security
When the traditional tasks of national militaries are delegated to private military firms, civil authorities enter into two contracts with them: commercial and moral. If ...
NOV 15, 2007 • Journal
The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers by Ngaire Woods
Woods is an insightful and thoughtful authority on the Bretton Woods institutions. In this book she examines their activities and focuses on their engagements with ...
NOV 15, 2007 • Journal
All Politics Is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes by Daniel Drezner
At a time when many international relations scholars are qualifying their premature predictions of the withering of the state, Daniel Drezner's new book makes a ...
NOV 15, 2007 • Journal
Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad: In Search of Knowledge, edited by Thomas Carothers
This book is an attempt to collect some of the little known about Rule-of-law (ROL) reform, and it does this creditably. Although the book's contributors ...
NOV 15, 2007 • Journal
Does Foreign Aid Really Work? by Roger C. Riddell & Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development, Domestic Politics by Carol Lancaster
These two recent works by Roger C. Riddell and Carol Lancaster display a sober understanding of aid challenges, present a balanced view of the context ...