BY AGNIESZKA PACZYNSKA Over the last three years food and fuel price increases followed by the global financial crisis have placed tremendous strains on fragile and post-conflict states, raising concerns about their ability to maintain political and social stability. At the same time, what these multiple crises have revealed is that even countries in remote [...]
BY MARIELY LÓPEZ-SANTANA The gaps between legislation, compliance and implementation represent one of the most challenging aspects of policy making and policy change in domestic and international settings. Environmental reforms and discussions about the ability of international law to effect change in states are good examples, highlighting the issues of converting laws into public goods [...]
BY KAREN AKERLOF AND EDWARD W. MAIBACH The United States has now formally acknowledged climate change as a threat, and it appears that our nation is poised to begin the process of formulating a response. Many of our peer nations reached this point years earlier. Their experiences to date may have value in helping us [...]
BY LOUISE SHELLEY Human trafficking has recently emerged as a major international policy concern. Its consequences are far-reaching and diverse affecting social, political and economic life in countries across the globe. Trafficking is part of the larger phenomenon of international migration that has assumed an enormous scale in recent decades. But it is also a [...]
BY BHAVANI ARABANDI India’s current growth rate of 8 percent has been attributed to the successful implementation of economic liberalization policies in 1991 that opened the economy to global corporations seeking to do business in India. These policies encouraged the formation of partnerships between domestic firms and global corporations, as well as the entry of [...]
BY DAVID WILSFORD When you think about public policy issues that are not working well, it does not take a rocket scientist to identify the health care system in the United States as one of them. For those who study public policy and particularly those who look at how other countries do it, a central [...]
BY BASSAM HADDAD The state’s relationship with business communities can provide both detrimental and beneficial economic outcomes. One factor that impinges on successful development can be the state-business nexus. Is such underdevelopment a function of certain cultures? A study of how state and business actors come together in informal economic networks and shape patterns of [...]
BY JANINE R. WEDEL In the study of foreign policy, aid and nationbuilding, little empirical attention has been paid to the agency of the actors who serve as brokers among parties. Much more attention generally has focused on policies and end results. Yet, the reorganizing, more networked world of the late 20th and early 21st [...]
BY DEBRA SHUTIKA On the whole, Northern Virginia is not often associated with the U.S.-Mexico border. In the summer of 2005, however, it seemed as if the border had moved into the region’s backyard. In Herndon,Virginia, a group of male Latino day laborers had been gathering at a local 7-Eleven each morning looking for work. [...]