FEB 12, 2008 • Podcast
Reverse Brain Drain for the Middle East
One strategy to improve the economies of the Middle East would be to reverse the brain drain, a development that contributed to the high tech ...
FEB 11, 2008 • Podcast
Perspectives on National Reconciliation in Iraq
Appointed by the Arab League as Special Envoy to Iraq, Mohktar Lamani spent a year in Baghdad's dangerous Red Zone trying to bring about peace ...
FEB 7, 2008 • Article
A Central African Affair: Chad's Insurgency Highlights Ongoing Genocide in Darfur
The international community could act to stop the genocide in Darfur. For example, it could pressure China and enact an EU trade and investment moratorium. ...
FEB 5, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Typing TERROR in a Crowded Chat
Like many tools of globalization, the power of the Internet can cut both ways. What then is the solution to extremism on the Internet? Paradoxically, ...
FEB 1, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Model Standards
As Fashion Week gets underway in New York City, it is worth asking where models' standards of beauty come from.
FEB 1, 2008 • Article
The Resource Curse: A Clean Hands Trust for the People of Sudan (Part 4)
Wenar argues that a trust-and-tariff mechanism could be used against countries that insist on buying resources from the worst regimes. The revenues would go to ...
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 ...
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 ...