Recent Articles
OCT 24, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Has Trade Run Aground?
As astonishing as it seems, globalization is playing better in Pretoria than in Peoria. Two recent surveys show Western attitudes toward global trade hardening even ...
OCT 23, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: ROUNDTABLE: Future of U.S. Trade Policy
With Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton calling for a "timeout" on future free trade agreements and support for free trade waning among Republicans, Policy Innovations asked ...
OCT 23, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Impulse to Truck and Trade
Devin Stewart interviews YaleGlobal Online editor Nayan Chanda about his new book, Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization.
OCT 12, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Merck's Dubai Ethics Center
Resolute ethical business standards can be a distinct bottom-line liability for companies operating in environments where corruption is more the rule than the exception. To ...
OCT 12, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Enclave Effect
New research suggests that signing a trade agreement with the United States may not bring the desired investment, and if investment comes it may not ...
OCT 10, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Moral Interest in Banking
Pakistan, whose constitution requires that all laws be brought in conformity with sharia, is transitioning to a completely interest-free economy. Islamic finance is booming in ...
OCT 5, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Spoofing Big Brother
Conceptual artist Hasan Elahi documents his every move online with hundreds of pictures. He photographs the toilets he uses, the food he eats, the places ...
OCT 3, 2007 • Article
Some Good News from Iraq: Sweet Sixteen
Not all the news from Iraq is bad. Three years ago, Soham lost both her legs in a terrorist attack. American soldiers fly her to ...
OCT 2, 2007 • Article
Book Review: Charm Offensive
Kurlantzick sees a need for the U.S. to counter China's soft power, but avoids making any ethical judgment on its questionable elements, specifically China's ...
SEP 26, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Contraception Ban Harms Philippine Women
Evan O'Neil interviews Aya Fujimura-Fanselow of the Center for Reproductive Rights on the impact of a contraception ban in Manila.