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Flags of Russia and Georgia

AUG 13, 2008 Article

Russia and Georgia: A Collision Waiting to Happen

In the war between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia the inevitable inclination is to assign black and white, blame and innocence. The truth is ...

Burmese monks protest the slow response to Cyclone Nargis. CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/northcountryboy/2505122369">Sean Ng</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

AUG 11, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Humanitarian Aid Politicized

Humanitarian aid is often viewed as a political commodity, no matter how well intentioned the donors may be. As swelling urban centers make disasters deadlier, ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/hleung/2108818972/">HKmPUA</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

AUG 11, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: The Greening of Islamic Politics

For centuries, Muslims considered Indonesia to be Islam's most distant outpost. Yet this diffuse country with multiple identities is leading the way in the greening ...

Former Nike Missile base, photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/telstar/49075174/" target=_blank>Telstar Logistics </a>

AUG 8, 2008 Article

The New MAD World

The current system may be Cold War Lite in which noncooperation is the new mutual assured destruction (MAD). Yet if we fail to cooperate, our ...

Detainees at Camp X-Ray. <br>DoD photo: Shane T. McCoy, U.S. Navy

AUG 6, 2008 Article

An American Detainee "Strategy"

Treatment of detainees has severely damaged America's reputation, yet there is still no true strategy for dealing with them as part of an overall counter-terrorism ...