BY ALLISON MACFARLANE To address the climate change crisis we need both short term and long term solutions that will reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases, in particular carbon dioxide (CO2). At the same time, there is a growing global need for more energy resources to provide for development of many of the world’s population. [...]
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 ERIN A. COX AND ARUN K. SOOD Who will foot the premium bill for your unexpected knee surgery? Who will pay the astronomical emergency room bill from the car accident that occurred while you were without health care? These are very realistic problems in American society today. Health care costs are at an all [...]
BY ARNAUD KURZE After over half a century of modern foreign aid practices, a vast literature has addressed the question of aid effectiveness1, particularly with regards to the questionable and perturbing record of poverty alleviation in least developed countries. Since the 1990s, however, post-Soviet countries and the war-torn Balkan region have also appeared on the [...]
BY TONY SAMARA In 2010 Cape Town, South Africa will host a number of soccer matches for the World Cup, including one of the semi-final matches. That same year New Delhi, India, will host the Commonwealth Games, and Shanghai, China the World Expo. Different as they are, all three cities confront an urban population marked [...]
BY PHILIP AUERSWALD In the past century of dramatic political and technological change, the centrality of oil in foreign policy has been a constant. Political leaders and governments of all types have been compelled to ensure the reliability of oil supplies for military use, to reduce the potential vulnerability of their economies to fluctuations in [...]