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JUN 3, 2010 • Article
Independence Day: Fifty Years after Lumumba Speech, DRC's Riches Still Not Benefiting her Children
DRC expert Thomas Turner examines Congo's rash of conflicts, its resource curse, elections, and possible withdrawal of MONUC. The state survives, but is too weak ...
MAY 4, 2010 • Article
This Is about Leadership: The Circular Debate of the Military's Gay Ban
In August 2010, three months after writing this article, West Point Cadet Katherine Miller publicly announced she was gay and resigned from West Point, saying that "...
APR 13, 2010 • Article
Incentivizing Peace in the Middle East: A New Role for the United States
The issue in the Israel/Palestinian conflict is not a lack of desire for peace, but the political inability to achieve it. The basic contours ...
MAR 25, 2010 • Article
Global Economic Policy and Human Rights: Three Sites of Disconnection
In this critical post-financial crisis period, Margot Salomon of LSE underscores the demands that international human rights law place on a more ethical form of ...
FEB 1, 2010 • Article
Obama and Democracy Assistance: Challenges and Responses
Although Obama has largely avoided the term democracy assistance, in fact he has delivered a considered and astute response to overcoming Bush's tarnished legacy--a response ...
JAN 6, 2010 • Article
Defining a Right to Move?
Beyond the ethical and practical arguments for immigration reform, the strongest case for an internationally recognized right to move may arise out of the "worst-case ...
DEC 4, 2009 • Article
Rationing Healthcare? We're Already Doing It
The question today is not whether to start rationing healthcare. We are already rationing, based in large part on the ability to pay. The question ...
NOV 5, 2009 • Article
The Opening of the Berlin Wall: A 20-Year Retrospective
The sudden downfall of the Communist regimes in 1989 and the opening of the Berlin Wall are sometimes depicted as the inevitable result of a lengthy ...
OCT 26, 2009 • Article
Hunting the Hare
"He that hunts two hares will catch neither," runs an old proverb. In the current unruly security environment, with challenges aplenty for the Obama administration, ...
SEP 2, 2009 • Article
The Emerging Alliance of World Religions and Ecology
John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker argue that although the world's religions have been slow to respond to our current environmental crises, their moral authority ...