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Jilbab fashion. Photo by <br><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rikie_rizza/3017806408/">Rikie Rizza</a>  (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>)

JUL 16, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Understanding Election Twitter

How does what happens online translate into pressure on leadership, and influence policy outcomes? This summer's major elections in India, Iran, and Indonesia show that ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ktylerconk/3189139667/">Kathleen Conklin</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JUL 8, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: American Sugar Policy Leaves a Sour Taste

As evidenced by the minor flap last week over the tariff provision that snuck into the American Clean Energy and Security Act, trade decisions are ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/soldiersmediacenter/777305759/in/photostream/" target=_blank">U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Tierney Nowland</a>

JUL 7, 2009 Article

A Humanitarian Assessment of the War in Iraq

The debates about withdrawing from Iraq have excluded what would seem to be a self-evident point of contention: how best to repair the damage that ...

Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnmueller/3663378200/">John Mueller</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JUL 2, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Institutional Trappings

The institutionalization of religion seems symptomatic of the human tendency to mistrust our own intuitions, which can result in an abdication of responsibility.

Lake Nam Tso, Tibet. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/seyerce/329441093/" target="_blank">Ernie R</a>

JUL 2, 2009 Article

The Two-headed Problem of Asian Hydropolitics: Security and Scarcity

With the Tibetan plateau serving as a third pole of available water, and the rift widening between China and the Dalai Lama's government in exile, ...

JUL 1, 2009 Journal

Summer 2009 (23.2)

Eco-model <a href="http://www.summerrayne.net/causes/sustainable-development-africa/">Summer Rayne Oakes</a> visits Mezimbite.

JUN 30, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Mozambique: The "Poster Child" Under Review

A new war is being waged on Mozambique's environment. The forests are being destroyed by slash and burn agriculture, firewood and charcoal production, and over-harvesting ...

JUN 24, 2009 Article

Leadership as Practical Ethics

What does one need to know to be a leader in the field of public policy? Joel Rosenthal argues for the centrality of ethics as ...

JUN 24, 2009 Journal

Briefly Noted

This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.

JUN 24, 2009 Journal

Embedded Cosmopolitanism: Duties to Strangers and Enemies in a World of ‘Dislocated Communities’ by Toni Erskine

The ongoing debate about the importance of promoting an idea of shared human identity that is not mediated by any personal connection, particularly in times ...