Articles & Reports

AUG 12, 2010 • Article

The evidence on both sides of the genetic modification debate is inconclusive, but attentive regulation could ensure crop safety in developed and developing countries.

AUG 12, 2010 • Article

In China, robust growth is a good thing, as long as it doesn't undermine the leadership's monopoly hold on political power. The Chinese leadership will ...

JUL 26, 2010 • Article

Independent Diplomat's goal of giving diplomatic assistance on a not-for-profit basis fills a niche in international politics and may broaden the understanding of diplomacy in ...

JUL 20, 2010 • Article

By insisting on votes on sanctions against Iran, Obama may have sacrificed his strategic objective--to prevent the development of the Iranian bomb--for an ephemeral victory ...

JUL 19, 2010 • Article

The Declaration of Support for an Efficient Renewable Energy Future calls for moving quickly to understand how a renewable power system can be optimized technically, ...

JUL 19, 2010 • Article

Fossil fuel business as usual courts ecological catastrophe, resource wars, failed states, and mass migration of the desperate. Ten prominent clean energy analysts, researchers, and ...

JUL 19, 2010 • Article

Brain scan data can be powerfully persuasive, but has the science behind it progressed far enough to warrant its use in the courtroom?

JUL 8, 2010 • Article

With a flurry of news about escalating tensions between North and South Korea, it might seem that the game has completely changed. But for Koreans ...

JUL 7, 2010 • Article

Authors Abtahi and Shoamanesh have a bold proposition: a multi-state, political-economic-security union that stretches from the Fertile Crescent to the Silk Road, connecting the Indian ...

JUL 1, 2010 • Article

What went wrong with the "Color Revolutions" in Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan? It was a combination of excessive expectations of the new leaders, and some ...