“Perfection Has No Future Tense:” Putin’s Legacy
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Will The Trump Administration Fall For North Korea’s Olympic-Level Deception?
The geopolitical implications for the Winter Olympics will be significant for 2018, and not just because of Nigeria’s trailblazing bobsled team. On...
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Book Review: The Search for a Russian National Idea
Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation from 1470 to the Present Written By Serhii Plokhy New York: Basic Books,...
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Breaking Barriers: Effective Community Engagement for Public Security
“The better we know the communities, the better we can protect them.” With these words, Charles Grady, FBI’s Community Outreach Specialist,...
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Social Impact Bonds: Do Them Right or Not at All
Social impact bonds (SIB) promise to promote public sector innovation by drawing private capital to support new ideas and collecting rigorous...
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Collusion’s Collateral Consequences
Long before an indictment is handed down by a grand jury, criminal prosecutors spend hours poring over every angle of the case. In my time with the...
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A Textbook Example of Ethnic Cleansing: Photographs of the Rohingya in Myanmar
An estimated 605,000 Rohingya refugees have flooded into Bangladesh to flee an offensive by Myanmar’s military that the United Nations has...
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How a Mining Disaster is Helping to Overhaul Impunity in Brazil
On November 5, 2015, a tailing dam in the state of Minas Gerais (in the southeast of Brazil) ruptured. It released an estimated fifty million tons of...
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A Case for Tracking Non-Financial Aid Flows More Effectively
Introduction During the second High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Paris in 2005, the global aid community developed two targets for tracking...
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Crossing the Line: Caring Across Borders
The Mae-Tao-clinic in the Tak province of Thailand is located in a conflict-ridden border zone with Myanmar, where life, livelihood and cultural...
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Sulfur Miners of Kawah Ijen
SULFUR MINERS OF KAWAH IJEN Kawah Ijen is one of the many volcanoes that dominate the landscape of East Java in the Indonesian archipelago. But Ijen...
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Crossing the Red Line: International Legal Limits on Policy Options
The apparent use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime in Syria and the potential development of nuclear weapons by Iran have brought “red...
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Governing the Arctic: Finding Consensus in a Region of Increasing Interest
Editor’s Note: David Biette spoke with the Yale Journal of International Affairs in April 2015, several weeks before the United States...