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 ...
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.
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, ...
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 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Iran's Revolution Will Come, But This Isn't It
Despite the similarities between the June 2009 protests and those of 1979, speculation that this round will spark another revolution is premature.
JUN 15, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Setting the Bar at 350
Where do we draw the political and ecological lines on climate change? How much carbon will the atmosphere take? Policy Innovations Managing Editor Evan O'Neil ...
JUN 9, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: The Consensus before the Consensus
Building mini-consensuses before the Consensus is the best way anything will get done at the December climate negotiations in Copenhagen. Here is a quick glance ...