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JAN 12, 2006 • Podcast
Development Agenda 2006: From Ideas into Action
The UK ambassador to the UN describes the positive rethinking of development policy that occurred in 2005 and the need to make 2006 the year for action. ...
DEC 14, 2005 • Podcast
Opus Dei: The First Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church
Author John Allen debunks some of the myths that surround Opus Dei, the prelature of the Roman Catholic Church that promotes the sanctity of ordinary ...
DEC 13, 2005 • Article
The UN Charter and the Neoconservative Challenge
Preventive war and democracy promotion are the two main prongs of the neocon challenge to traditional UN norms governing the use of force. Farer criticizes ...
DEC 1, 2005 • Podcast
Corporate Warriors: The Privatized Military and Iraq
P. W. Singer examines the Pentagon's policy of contracting private security and logistics firms for tasks ranging from combat to catering in the Iraq War. ...
NOV 29, 2005 • Podcast
Rx for Survival: Why We Must Rise to the Global Health Challenge
Hilts warns that the emergence of new diseases and the resurgence of old ones has put the world on the brink of a global health ...