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SEP 15, 2016 Journal

Realpolitik: A History by John Bew

Realpolitik is back—or if not back, at least enjoying a day in the sun more fully than it has for several decades. Chastened by ...

SEP 15, 2016 Journal

Can Microfinance Work? How to Improve Its Ethical Balance and Effectiveness by Lesley Sherratt

By 2009 the reckless greed of subprime mortgage lenders in the United States had become clear. Housing prices had collapsed by 30 percent or more, and families, ...

SEP 15, 2016 Journal

Briefly Noted

Democratic peace theory rests on the largely untested assumption that leaders of liberal democratic states will be held publicly accountable for the costs of war.

SEP 14, 2016 Journal Online Exclusive

Pessimism and the Liberal Order

Sze Ping Lo

SEP 8, 2016 Article

Sze Ping Lo: Towards a New Environmental Imagination

Sze Ping Lo, CEO of WWF-China, is equal parts activist and intellectual. Now in his early 40s, in a recent conversation Lo looked back on ...

Migrants' life jackets and inflatable tubes on Lesbos. CREDIT: <a href="http://www.tysonsadler.com/">Tyson Sadler</a>. (See also Sadler's Carnegie Council <a href="http://tinyurl.com/zdqle69">Instagram Take-over</a>.)

SEP 7, 2016 Article

Greece, the Greeks, and the Crisis: Reaching Beyond "That's how it Goes"

Understandably, international attention focuses on the sufferings of migrants arriving in Greece. But what of the Greeks themselves? Though largely invisible to tourists, the country's ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.takepart.com/foodinc">TakePart/Participant Media</a>

AUG 30, 2016 Article

Ethics on Film: Discussion of "Food, Inc."

This documentary takes a close look at the U.S. food industry and finds that cheap food is costly and sometimes deadly to the environment, ...

AUG 22, 2016 Journal Online Exclusive

The Stateless and the New UN Secretary-General

When it comes to the crisis of the stateless—those who have fled their homes, been ejected from their states by war, conflict, natural disasters ...

CREDIT: <a href=" https://www.facebook.com/SelmaMovie/photos/a.492695297539481.1073741828.452786068197071/564156830393327/?type=3&theater">Paramount Pictures</a>

AUG 22, 2016 Article

Ethics on Film: Discussion of "Selma"

This stirring film gives a behind-the-scenes look at the Selma-to-Montgomery march and illustrates how and why King's strategy worked. It also shows the devastating consequences ...

AUG 19, 2016 Journal Online Exclusive

Insecurity and the U.S. Election

Is a sense of insecurity the principal driver of the 2016 election in the United States? I wonder whether what we are witnessing reflects a sense "...