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U.S. Secretary of State Rice and President Obiang,<br> Equatorial Guinea CREDIT: <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Secretary_Rice_and_President_Obiang.jpg" target=_blank>U.S. State Dept</a>

FEB 1, 2008 Article

The Resource Curse: Stopping the Flow of Stolen Resources (Part 3)

Calculations show that oil companies illicitly transport into the U.S. over 600 million barrels of oil each year. This is 12.7 percent of U.S. oil ...

Panning for Diamonds, Sierra Leone<br> CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/brianharringtonspier/455875454/" target="_blank">Brian Harrington Spier</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>)

FEB 1, 2008 Article

The Resource Curse: Might Makes the Right to Sell? (Part 2)

Customary practices left over from the era of absolute state sovereignty still give property rights to whoever can exert coercive control over a population. This ...

Gas flares, Nigeria. Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelling_e/229048139/">Ellie Sandercock</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">CC</a>).

FEB 1, 2008 Article

The Resource Curse: Property Rights and the Resource Curse (Part 1)

Because of a major flaw in the international trade system, consumers in rich countries unknowingly buy stolen goods every day. The raw materials used to ...

In the melting pot, by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/28481088@N00/201872285/" target="_blank">tanakawho</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en" target="_blank">CC</a>).

JAN 31, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Melting Pot, the Salad Bowl, and the Confucian Ideal

Many have argued we are entering a multipolar world. Yet, this competition will not simply take place in terms of varying approaches to foreign policy ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/itsgreg/119849698/">Greg</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JAN 31, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: The Fair Trade Future

The Fair Trade movement is a promising vehicle for alternative globalization, yet its dramatic growth has fueled a number of new challenges. Has Fair Trade's ...