Recent Articles
FEB 22, 2016 • Article
Ethics in Online Activism: False Senses of Social Action or Effective Source of Change?
"There is a growing skepticism of whether or not sectors of online activism are more self-interested than socially interested," writes Rimah Jaber. When and how ...
FEB 16, 2016 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Reprivatized Womanhood: Changing Gender Discourse in Contemporary Urban China
Urban Chinese women face mounting challenges in the contemporary era of "reprivatized womanhood." But it was not always that way.
FEB 11, 2016 • Article
The Need for Ethical Grounding in Social Activism: A Banker's Perspective of the Occupy Movement
Why did the Occupy Movement, that should have resonated with 99 percent of the population, lack the support to achieve the changes that it sought?
FEB 11, 2016 • Article
Tokyo's Ambition Generation
Despite a host of cultural and structural difficulties, Japanese business culture is slowly becoming more welcoming to start-ups, writes Carnegie Council Senior Fellow Devin Stewart ...
FEB 10, 2016 • Article
What Does Singapore Owe its Migrant Workers?
In Tuas View, an industrial neighborhood in Singapore, migrant workers have little reason to leave their buildings. They live in a 15,000 square foot dormitory, where ...
FEB 5, 2016 • Article
Can Wars Ever be Just or Are Wars Merely Justifiable?: The Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
From the standpoint of ethics of war, the conflict in the eastern region of the DRC would be deemed to be justifiable because it fills ...
FEB 4, 2016 • Article
Deterrence or Disarmament?: The Ethics of Nuclear Warfare
Is using a nuclear weapon morally permissible under some circumstances? Is it ethical to implement nuclear deterrence (threatening to use atomic weapons) as a self-defense ...
JAN 28, 2016 • Article
Human Rights in Asia and the West
The geographical, national, or ethnic East-West division in human rights thinking is increasingly irrelevant. Instead, multiple layers of horizontal solidarity have been formed through global ...
JAN 28, 2016 • Article
Values and the Ethics of International Order
At a time when U.S. primacy is in doubt, when many are concerned that China might become a global political power, when the threat ...
JAN 27, 2016 • Journal Online Exclusive
EIA Interview with Thomas Weiss on Global Governance
The journal is proud to feature an exclusive audio interview between Thomas Weiss, the Presidential Professor of Political Science at the City University of New ...