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Syria: The Real Stakes
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (3): 77–83.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Jacques Myard © World Policy Institute 2015 2015 World Policy Institute PARIS—On Feb. 25, during a trip to Syria with a French parliamentary delegation, I met with Bashar al-Assad. In the delegation with me were three other lawmakers, Socialist Gérard Bapt, center-right senator Jean-Pierre...
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The Newest Power Couple: Iran and Russia Band Together to Support Assad
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 84–88.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Ellie Geranmayeh Russia and Iran's military and economic ties are stronger than ever, according to Ellie Geranmayeh, a policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Fueled by military cooperation in Syria, resistance to what they consider the U.S.' regime change agenda, and a shared...
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Map Room: Fear Thy Neighbor: Crime and Xenophobia in Europe
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 36–37.
Published: 01 June 2017
... Europeans are increasingly afraid of refugees fleeing war and violence in Syria and Iraq. World Policy Journal compares data from eight European countries, and concludes there’s little connection between refugees, crime rates, and xenophobia. MAP ROOM
FEAR THY NEIGHBOR: CRIME AND XENOPHOBIA...
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Saving Families from Our Fate: A Conversation with Saliha Ben Ali
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 45–48.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Saliha Ben Ali Journalist Lisa De Bode interviews Saliha Ben Ali, whose son left the family’s home in Belgium four years ago to join a terrorist group in Syria. He was killed a few months later. Since his death, Ben Ali has become an outspoken advocate for parents who fear losing their children...
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Syriana, or the Godfather, Part IV
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World Policy Journal (2006) 22 (4): 87–91.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Karl E. Meyer Copyright © 2006 World Policy Institute 2006 C#DA
Syriana, or The Godfather, Part IV
Few countries are at once so officially frigid and yet so compulsively fascinating as Syria.
Partly to avoid the many hurdles of applying for a visa, my wife and I joined a British...
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Declawing the “Party of God”: Toward Normalization in Lebanon
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (2): 31–42.
Published: 01 June 2001
... the “Party of God”
Toward Normalization in Lebanon
Steven N . Simon andJonathan Stevenson
The violent clashes between Palestinians Syria and Iran. Armed Hizbullah guerrillas
and Israelis in Gaza and the West Bank number no more than a thousand, but the
last October, which quickly...
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Deadly Interactions
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 83–91.
Published: 01 December 2015
... with nearly 2 million residents. Sharing its entire 139-mile southern border with Syria, the region has become a violent frontier in the deadliest civil war in recent history. Along Turkey’s south border, four cities—Şanlıurfa, Gaziantep, Kilis, and Hatay—have deep interactions with the opponents...
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Taking Refuge: The Syrian Revolution in Turkey
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (2): 59–67.
Published: 01 June 2012
... the Syria-Turkey border to a new camp, 90 miles away, in Kilis. Guards lounge at Reyhanli’s half-open gates, letting journalists and refugees pass with a nonchalance compounded by exhaustion. Collapsed canvas tents lie in mounds beside their swept-clean concrete beds. Near the gendarme station, children...
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The Citizen and the State: The Decline of Sovereignty in the Arab World
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 113–121.
Published: 01 September 2016
... states, these key factors have worsened in the past five years, and will likely deteriorate even more rapidly due to lower oil income and continued foreign interference in Arab affairs, which sabotages our sovereign power and aggravates the trends toward state collapse. Syria, Yemen, Egypt, Libya...
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Persian Perspective: A Chat with Ali Akbar Salehi
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 66–73.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of a strain, do you feel the burden on your people and how will that affect your foreign policy? How long can your young people, especially, be expected to assume these kinds of burdens? Salehi: No, no, no. When we speak of Syria, we speak of the Syrian people. Now is time for every country, including...
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Choosing Jihad
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 70–76.
Published: 01 December 2014
.... At some point later that month, Walid strapped explosives to himself and traveled to a city in a country where he’d never been before to blow himself up. As of October, the Tunisian Ministry of the Interior listed up to 3,000 Tunisian fighters as active within Syria and Iraq, with a further 9,000...
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Safe Spaces: As the Syrian crisis forces women to fend for themselves, female refugees in Jordan are learning to cope
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 99–106.
Published: 01 March 2018
... tiles. She left her home in Ghouta in western Syria in the summer of 2013 with her mother, sister, and two children. Less than a month after they left, the Syrian government struck Ghouta with rockets containing the nerve agent sarin. Hundreds of people—estimates range from 280 to 1,700—died violent...
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“Warehouse of Souls”: How the EU Abandoned Greece
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 55–60.
Published: 01 December 2016
... days in a refugee camp, watching ferryboats come and go from the main port of this Greek island, just 5 miles off the Turkish coast. In July, the 24-year-old Kurd and his family had arrived in a crowded rubber dinghy after a perilous trip across the Aegean Sea. Syria’s civil war had forced them from...
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Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 108–118.
Published: 01 December 2015
... in the Middle East and Africa. The civil war and terrorism of Syria and Iraq have the potential of emptying a large part of the population of those territories, millions of whom have already left, hundreds of thousands pitching up in a Europe moved by their plight but with scarcely the means or, in many cases...
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Russian Brinksmanship: Don’t Confuse Unpredictability with Strength
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 81–83.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Union once was. With a renewed trust in its military and a willingness to accept economic loss for political gain, Moscow has annexed Crimea, shifted the military balance in Syria, and stoked fears of nuclear conflict. Yet as pleased as the Kremlin must be that it has thrown the U.S. and others off...
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Islands Apart: Why the Saudi-Egypt Alliance is on the Rocks
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 89–95.
Published: 01 December 2016
... proclaiming a new chapter of invigorated cooperation. Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister at the time, Saud El-Faisal, dedicated his closing remarks to disparaging Putin’s note. “[The Russians] talk about the tragedies in Syria while they have been an integral part in the tragedies suffered by the Syrian people...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 1–3.
Published: 01 December 2016
... women. “I’m called on to opine on everything from Syria to Siberia,” quips FPI’s founding board member Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and CEO of the New America Foundation. “It’s as though they don’t know of any other women.” But there’s a second, far more insidious barrier that prevents women from...
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Extraordinary Rendition and the Wages of Hypocrisy
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (1): 25–35.
Published: 01 March 2006
... Agency (CIA ) captured Talaat Fouad
release, the Syrian ambassador to the United Qassem, a key leader and spokesman of al-
States, Imad Moustapha, declared that Syria Gamaa al-Islamiya, an Egyptian armed Is
had found no evidence of Arar’s complicity lamist group, in Croatia. Later, Qassem dis...
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Notes from the Underground: The Rise of Nouri Al-Maliki and the New Islamists
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 63–76.
Published: 01 March 2013
... to a declaration of independence from Baghdad. Eventually, a popular revolt inside Syria would push Maliki into a deeper embrace of Iran, convinced he needed his Shiite neighbor’s treacherous involvement as a check on Sunni competitors in Iraq and their supporters in Saudi Arabia and Turkey. In short...
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Life on Mars: Dubai projects a new vision of nationalism
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 10–15.
Published: 01 March 2018
... in vogue thanks to Narendra Modi’s aggressive foreign policy (coupled with the flexing of Emirati soft power in the South Asian art scene). Proxy wars in Syria and Yemen mean that Iran is very much out. Yet recently, the way the UAE constructs its national identity has begun to change. 2014 marked...
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