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NOV 15, 2007 Journal

The Rules of War [Full Text]

These three books show how the enduring principles of just war theory can be applied insightfully and fruitfully to even the latest kinds of conflict, ...

NOV 15, 2007 Journal

States of Risk: Should Cosmopolitans Favor Their Compatriots?

This article claims that it is not mutual benefit but mutual risk that grounds compatriot preference. Exposure to risks such as state abuse provide us ...

NOV 15, 2007 Journal

Human Rights Versus Emissions Rights: Climate Justice and the Equitable Distribution of Ecological Space

Arguing that issues of both emissions and subsistence should be comprehended within a single framework of justice, the proposal here is that this broader framework ...

NOV 15, 2007 Journal

American Religious NGOs in North Korea: A Paradoxical Relationship

Despite North Korea's antipathy to outside religious influence, it is primarily American NGOs with financial backing from religious organizations that have maintained development and exchange ...

NOV 15, 2007 Journal

Expanding Europe: The Ethics of EU-Turkey Relations

The possible future EU membership of Turkey has become one of the most hotly debated topics both in the EU and within Turkey itself. Underlying ...

NOV 15, 2007 Journal

Reading Tariq Ramadan: Political Liberalism, Islam, and "Overlapping Consensus"

"Much of the disagreement and controversy over Ramadan's significance arguably stems not from a disagreement over what he is on record as having asserted or ...

NOV 13, 2007 Article

Responsible Profit: Climate Change and the Green Economy

This rapporteur's summary from the third Workshop for Ethics in Business features discussion of the social aspiration gap, personal carbon trading, building megacommunities to solve ...

General David H. Petraeus, Pentagon Press Briefing, 2007

NOV 11, 2007 Article

Iraq After the "Surge"

Is the "surge" working? McCausland analyzes its results in four different areas of Iraqi life: political, military, diplomatic, and economic. He goes on to discuss ...

Has the sun set on cheap, plentiful oil? <br>Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ccgd/226344463/">Calum Davidson</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

NOV 9, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Inflation Fuels Global Hunger

Despite the best efforts of central bankers everywhere, inflation is making a comeback, and everyone's feeling the pinch of rising food and fuel prices.

Not your average cup of joe, GULDEN coffee engages in Direct Trade with farmers in Valle de Cauca, Colombia.

NOV 7, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: The Gulden Coffee Story

Not your average cup of joe, GULDEN coffee differentiates itself from large producers by specialty roasting and Direct Trade practices that bring the company in ...