--- title: World: The Case for Giving Refugees a Global Passport description: Giving the world's refugees international passports, how Syria could be Putin's Afghanistan, the Pentagon's engineered soldiers and more. canonical: https://time.com/4048002/refugees-global-passport/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-24T16:01:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:01:30.858Z article:section: Ideas og:title: The Case for Giving Refugees a Global Passport og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4048002/refugees-global-passport/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Case for Giving Refugees a Global Passport twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Case for Giving Refugees a Global Passport by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 24, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 24, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s the case for giving the world’s refugees international passports.**](https://www.newamerica.org/the-weekly-wonk/sink-or-swim-the-case-for-passports-for-the-worlds-refugees/) By Michael Soussan at New America **2\.** [**Will Syria become Putin’s Afghanistan?**](http://www.realclearworld.com/blog/2015/09/syria%5Fmay%5Fbe%5Fputins%5Fafghanistan%5F111454.html) By Fabio Rafael Fiallo in Real Clear World **3\.** [**The Pentagon is engineering humans for war.**](http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/military-technology-pentagon-robots/406786/) By Annie Jacobsen in the Atlantic **4\.** [**Maybe behavioral psychology can help in the fight against climate change.**](http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/obama-seeks-psychological-help-with-climate-change/) By Eve Lehmann of ClimateWire in Scientific American **5\.** [**Universities should see the Obama administration’s new college scorecard as an opportunity to innovate, not a punishment.**](http://aspen.us/journal/editions/septemberoctober-2015/whose-scorecard-it-anyway) By Josh Wyner in the Aspen Journal of Ideas  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4048002/refugees-global-passport/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4048002/refugees-global-passport/"},"headline":"The Case for Giving Refugees a Global Passport","datePublished":"2015-09-24T16:01:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:01:30.858Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4048002/refugees-global-passport/","keywords":["Innovation","climate change","College","Syria","Refugees","Pentagon","University"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4048002/refugees-global-passport/","name":"The Case for Giving Refugees a Global Passport"}}]}] ```