![<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammurabi%27s_Code" target=_blank>Hammurabi's Code</a>, an early legal innovation.](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/hammurabi_2023-04-10-055021_lyyd.jpg?v=1721239303)
OCT 31, 2006 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Equitable Legalization: Give Consumers Legal Protection against Amoral Trade
Kim Beng Phar describes the difficult and often impossible legal paths that citizens and consumers face when trying to sue for human rights violations in ...
OCT 31, 2006 • Podcast
Is Democracy Possible Here? Principles for a New Political Debate
If we want substantial political argument--and without it, true democracy is impossible--both "the red" and "the blue" must recognize shared moral principles, says Ronald Dworkin.
OCT 26, 2006 • Podcast
North Korea's Nuclear Detonation and Northeast Asian Politics
Are the major powers prepared to live with a nuclear North Korea if the detonation acts as a check on U.S. power? How will ...
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OCT 18, 2006 • Article
Van Dyk Diary: Ramadan in Peshawar
Jere Van Dyk returns to his old haunts in Peshawar and is awed by the faith that permeates life there. Yet violence is just beneath ...
![The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/import/studio/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/ShiaRevival.jpg?v=1721239304)
OCT 18, 2006 • Podcast
The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future
Vali Nasr argues that the Shia Crescent--stretching from Lebanon and Syria through the Gulf to Iraq and Iran, finally terminating in Pakistan and India--is gathering ...
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OCT 13, 2006 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Reversing Babel
Nikolas K. Gvosdev, editor of The National Interest, discusses the emergence of English as globalization’s lingua franca and the moral implications of greater ease ...
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OCT 13, 2006 • News
The Council Salutes Muhammad Yunus, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Muhammad Yunus and the organization he founded, Grameen Bank, were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on October 13, 2006. They pioneered microcredit loans—small loans extended to ...
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OCT 13, 2006 • Article
China's New-Rich and Global Responsibility
China's authorities have recently come under fire from foreign governments and human rights groups for Chinese business practices in other countries. Eisenman and Stewart delve ...