On Monday, December 7, the Policy Studies Organization, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Berkeley Electronic Press announced the launch of a new peer-reviewed journal, Policy & Internet. Hailed as "the first major peer-reviewed journal investigating the implications of the Internet and associated technologies for public policy," the publication has launched its first edition featuring the following contributions:

The Internet and Public Policy

Helen Z. Margetts

The Case Against Mass E-mails:…

It is our pleasure to announce that the Prof. Dr. Helmut K. Anheier is the new Dean of the Hertie School of Governance as of Selt 1, 2009. He is Michael Zürn's successor who has lead the School from 2004-2009.

Helmut K. Anheier (PhD, Yale) holds a chair of Sociology at Heidelberg University and serves as Academic Director of the Center for Social Investment. From 2001 to 2009, he was Professor of Public Policy and Social Welfare at UCLA's School of Public Affairs and Centennial Professor at the…

On the evening of 23 September 2009, Dr. Kemal Derviş, Vice-President for Global Economics at the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC delivered the Opening Year Lecture entitled Global Economic Governance and the IMF: From Bretton Woods to the Crisis of 2008-2008 to a captive audience made up of new students, members of the faculty and the Geneva international community.

Dr. Derviş began his lecture by remarking that the G20+ leaders were meeting the following day and that the subject of his…

Chinese President Hu Jintao has promised the people of China a politically and socially stable society. The government is working towards its goal of 'hexie shehui' meaning "a harmonious society" through sustainable development and people's welfare programs. These days China is witnessing an unprecedented number of public protests, demonstrations and violence. These displays of social friction seem to be multiplying every year. Will this brewing unrest culminate in another violent spectacle…

Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to become School's first Li Ka Shing Professor; Chinese language graduate Public Administration and Management programme to begin in March 2010

The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy recently celebrated the fifth anniversary of its establishment as an autonomous graduate school of the National University of Singapore. To mark the occasion, the School hosted a gala dinner for 800 guests, including government ministers, ambassadors, business and…