Essays Archive

China and India’s low-carbon development is crucial for global sustainability and domestic welfare. However, embedded political and economic obstacles have prevented a…

This brief analysis discusses the evolution of South-South cooperation and examines the current practice in this regard and the challenges facing countries of the South that wish…

The way we think about human trafficking and migration is changing. Moreover, at the global, regional and national levels of policy-making, practice and advocacy, trafficking is…

The civil war in Syria refocuses recent discourse about the law of war and provides an essential reminder of the law's core purposes and foundations. Perhaps more importantly…

For decades the Arab Middle East was seen as resisting economic liberalization. Once it opened its doors to economic liberalization and foreign investments, the region failed to…

Last year’s natural outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Africa alarmed global health experts because of the disease’s increasing appearance in Central and East…

This essay summarizes the results of a larger study evaluating the effectiveness of OECD economic surveillance in 24 randomly selected countries. Because the OECD’s advice…

We are increasingly becoming aware of a growing need for global public goods. Yet, one category of such goods, global norms, is missing from our lists, essentially because we rely…

This paper seeks to highlight the historical and existing problems associated with the protection of indigenous people’s culture within the parameters of international law.…

The November 2012 action of the UN General Assembly in designating Palestine’s UN observer mission as that of a state is fully justified in law. Palestine has long been a…