Recent Articles
MAR 17, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Xenophobia Tests National Legitimacy
The connection between xenophobic sentiments and national identity calls into question the legitimacy of nations in an era of increasing migration and multiculturalism.
MAR 16, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Slums: The Future
With an unconventional planning methodology, the Urban Think Tank envisions solutions for the barrio communities of Caracas.
MAR 16, 2010 • Journal Online Exclusive
EIA Interview: Darrel Moellendorf on the Climate Change Negotiations in Copenhagen
Darrel Moellendorf, author of "Treaty Norms and Climate Change Mitigation," discusses what happened in Copenhagen and what it means for future negotiations on climate change.
MAR 12, 2010 • Article
Toyota and the End of Japan
Toyota's fall from grace caps a 20-year economic malaise that is infecting the popular culture, manifesting itself in a preference for staying home, avoiding risk.
MAR 12, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Basic Income Grants Alleviate Poverty in Namibia
Promising results from a pilot program in Namibia indicate that basic income grants may help poor regions jolt the poverty cycle with jobs and education.
MAR 12, 2010 • Article
Is Japan Giving Up?
Just as the success of Toyota Motor was a symbol of Japan's confidence on the world stage in the 1980s, the automobile company's recent troubles ...
MAR 11, 2010 • Journal
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
MAR 11, 2010 • Journal
War in an Age of Risk by Christopher Coker
This book adds several new elements to the relation between war and the risk society. They are anxiety, complexity, and the future, writes reviewer Claudia ...
MAR 11, 2010 • Journal
The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days by Karen Greenberg
The lesson of the first 100 days of Guantanamo is not one of how truth and justice triumphed, but of how efficiently a bureaucratic machine on ...
MAR 11, 2010 • Journal
The Global Commonwealth of Citizens: Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy by Daniele Archibugi
This book provides not only an exhaustive treatment of the benefits and drawbacks of cosmopolitan democracy, but also the most detailed statement to date of ...