FEB 5, 2009 • Article
Digital Diplomacy: Understanding Islam through Virtual Worlds
This project examines how the Internet can lead to a greater firsthand understanding of Islam for policymakers, diplomats, and people worldwide.
FEB 4, 2009 • Article
Doing the Right Thing: How Organizations Can Help us Make Ethical Decisions
What sorts of features must we instill in a collective to make it easier for people to make the decision to tell the truth? What ...
FEB 4, 2009 • Podcast
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
George Friedman, founder and CEO of Strategic Forecasting, Inc., asks: What's in store during this new century? Which nations will gain and lose power? How ...
FEB 3, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: How Japan Became an Efficiency Superpower
Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso pushed for concrete carbon reductions at Davos this year, three decades after oil shocks propelled Japan toward "efficiency superpower" status. ...
FEB 3, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Time to Cash Out
Widespread adoption of electronic forms of payment will depend heavily on trust, but it could close some loopholes and jolt the world economy.
FEB 2, 2009 • Article
Letter from the United States to Iran
In a possible letter from the United States to Iran, David Speedie writes of the two nations' shared interests, the causes that divide them, and ...
JAN 30, 2009 • Podcast
Global Ethics Corner: How Real Is Virtual?
Virtual worlds are online environments in which users interact via self-designed persona called avatars. Virtual reality can be entertaining and educational, but at what point ...
JAN 28, 2009 • Podcast
Public Ethics Radio: Jeff McMahan on Proportionality
Israeli officials insist that their attacks on Gaza were judiciously planned so as to minimize harm to civilians. What role do civilian casualties play in ...