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MAY 27, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: What's Wrong with Diplomacy in Damascus
The Obama administration has reversed former President George W. Bush's isolationist policies toward Syria, but has little to show for it. The government will need ...
MAY 26, 2009 • Podcast
The Afghan Challenge
Rebuilding Afghanistan will be a long process, says Stewart, and so our presence there needs to be much lighter. It's inconceivable that for the next 30...
MAY 26, 2009 • Podcast
Forced to Labor: The Cost of Coercion
The Carnegie Council and the International Labour Organization (ILO) present a unique look at modern slavery from the personal, policy, and enforcement perspectives, to shed ...
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MAY 26, 2009 • Podcast
The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World
Michelle Goldberg exposes the global war on women's reproductive rights and its disastrous and unreported consequences for the future of global development.
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MAY 22, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Mass Incarceration as Social Control
Historians of mass incarceration in the U.S. have long argued for an assessment of the U.S. criminal justice system in terms of human ...
MAY 22, 2009 • Podcast
George Kennan, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War Reconsidered
Historian John Lukacs discusses his close friend George Kennan. Kennan was an architect of the Cold War, but after 1950 he became one of its critics ...
MAY 22, 2009 • Podcast
Global Ethics Corner: How Do We Know When We've Been Bad?
To become ethical, must behavior be grounded in a religious faith or other system of belief? How do we judge the behavior of states and ...
MAY 20, 2009 • Podcast
The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East
Despite all the bloodshed in its recent history, the Middle East is still a place of warmth, humanity, and generous eccentricity. Within the turmoil there ...