Recent Articles
SEP 13, 2012 • Journal
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama
REVIEW BY JACK SNYDER. What is the historical secret leading to stable political orders?
SEP 13, 2012 • Journal
Briefly Noted
This section contains a round-up of recent notable books in the field of international affairs.
SEP 13, 2012 • Journal
Limiting the Killing in War: Military Necessity and the St. Petersburg Assumption
In this article, we explain why an ideal typical war cannot be regulated with rules that attach to individuals’ moral status; propose an alternative framework ...
SEP 13, 2012 • Journal
International Rescue and Mediated Consequences
It is generally assumed that when judging the proportionality of a humanitarian intervention, these consequences must be factored into the equation. If an intervention is ...
SEP 13, 2012 • Journal
Two Cheers for Humanitarianism
The unsettled boundaries of what properly constitutes humanitarianism brings a number of difficult questions to the surface.
SEP 10, 2012 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Banking on Themselves: Self-Help Groups Empower Poor Rural Women
Microfinance groups have helped the women of Chimbali village overcome the constraints of physical access to banks, lack of education, and social taboos to build ...
AUG 30, 2012 • Article
Syria and the Arab Spring: Unintended Consequences?
It is easy to seek to add Assad to the list of toppled despots, from Tunisia to Egypt to Yemen to Libya. But it would ...
AUG 30, 2012 • Article
Home Alone?
What is it like to be liberal in East Asia? Is liberalism a specifically Western ideology, or does it embody universal norms? The old dispute ...
AUG 27, 2012 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Policy Simulations Could Help Combat Sex Trafficking
Through virtual simulation of anti-trafficking policies, enforcement agencies would get a better grasp on how to target their efforts.
AUG 24, 2012 • Article
The Last Protestant?
The 2012 presidential election is surprising in one important respect. Protestants of various sects dominated national leadership until John F. Kennedy broke the barrier in 1960. Yet ...