Recent Articles
FEB 13, 2013 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Exporting Expertise: Lessons from Brazil's Forest Success
It took a broad group of actors to reduce Brazilian deforestation by 75 percent in seven years. Now, their success can be emulated in other tropical ...
FEB 11, 2013 • Article
Saddam’s Pistol, and Yours
In the current debate over gun regulation a simple point is being missed. Every citizen has the right to a gun. But shouldn’t every ...
FEB 11, 2013 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Ma Jun: Information Empowers
Chinese environmentalist Ma Jun walks the line between transparency and activism in his quest to clean China's air, land, and water.
FEB 6, 2013 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: What I Talk About When I Talk About Sustainability
The ease with which sustainability rolls off the tongue these days far surpasses our understanding of it or our implementation. A few changes in attitude ...
JAN 7, 2013 • Journal
The Right to Justification: Elements of a Constructivist Theory of Justice by Rainer Forst
In this book--a tour de force that exhibits both a compelling, unified vision and a wide range of concrete insights--Forst explains how his unified theory ...
JAN 7, 2013 • Journal
Dignity in Adversity: Human Rights in Troubled Times by Seyla Benhabib
In this book, Benhabib makes a compelling case for a “cosmopolitanism without illusions” that may help show the way through an uncertain world transformed and ...
JAN 7, 2013 • Journal
Global Civics: Responsibilities and Rights in an Interdependent World Edited by Hakan Altinay
"Global Civics" is an attempt to ignite a dialogue about responsibilities and rights in an increasingly interdependent world, and should be of interest to anyone ...
JAN 7, 2013 • Journal
Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience Edited by Claire Magone, Michaël Neuman, and Fabrice Weissman; and Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present by Didier Fassin
These two recent works make a complementary and refreshing contribution to the burgeoning field of humanitarian studies. Both books shed new light on the authority ...
JAN 7, 2013 • Journal
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
JAN 7, 2013 • Journal
Introductory Note
Recent developments in climate policy have done little to suggest that the world is acting quickly enough to avoid a dangerous rise in global temperatures. ...