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World Policy Journal (2007) 24 (1): 65–73.
Published: 01 March 2007
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 81–88.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., Spain—Political violence was so rampant in the Basque Country in the mid 1980s that local journalists devised a proforma for the weekly bloodshed. Fill in the blank: policeman/soldier/ guard was killed/injured by a bomb/ bullet. The one constant was that the separatist guerrillas, Euskadi Ta Askata...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 March 2001
... States in M ay by Cork University Press. Why Do They Kill? The Basque Conflict in Spain Paddy Woodworth Bilbao’s brand new airport terminal is a huge citizens’ demonstrations for peace. In­ shimmering glass wonder, hung on ellipti­ dividuals who openly criticize...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (3): 69–80.
Published: 01 September 2005
... on a hook of travel essays on the Basque Country. Spain’s “Second Transition” Reforming Zeal and Dire Omens Paddy Woodworth Spain’s supposedly exemplary transition at all, no longer corresponded to the grim from dictatorship to democracy, which fol­ realities of his...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (2): 7–26.
Published: 01 June 2004
..., the party dropped any the status of the Basques, Catalans, and serious opposition to abortion, divorce, or Galicians. This word, he claimed put “the the system of devolved autonomous gov­ very essence and concept of Spain in dan­ ernments in the regions. Without these ger.”8 It is no coincidence...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 18 (4): 35–44.
Published: 01 December 2002
... and po­ constitution, to which they attributed the litical convulsions triggered by the waves of breakdown of democracy in 1936 and the terrorism by Basque separatists and Western ensuing civil war. These fears proved un­ Europe’s highest unemployment rate. founded and unwarranted. The long reign...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 18 (4): 107.
Published: 01 December 2002
...: International Law and the Pinochet (XVIII: 1) Case" (XVIII: 1) Kinzer, Stephen; “Dreaming in Turkish” (XVIII:3) Woodworth, Paddy; "Why Do They Kill? The Basque Conflict in Spain...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 24–25.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Speak national language as irst language Speak a second language well enough to hold a conversation 16 percent speak Catalan, Galician, or Basque as a irst language Source: Eurobarometer (2012) 24 Vol. XXXV, No. 1, Spring 2018 © 2018 World Policy Institute...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (3): 15–22.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., a Spanish mineworker, paign to achieve a united Ireland, and the was not religious or politically aware when Basque Euskad Ta Askatasuna ( e t a ), which he was jailed in 2001 for a drug offense. In­ first fought against the Franco government carcerated in the same prison was Jamal Ah- and now...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 1–2.
Published: 01 September 2012
... and northern Mali and new representative governments in libya and Ivory Coast. The brilliant photojournalist Brent Stirton takes us on a tour of the horrors borne by water around the world. Robbie Corey-Boulet details the system of victor’s justice being administered in the Ivory Coast. In the Basque...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 3–7.
Published: 01 June 2015
... and inclusive growth. The level of climate change vulnerability in Spain and the Basque country depends on the sector considered. From a health perspective, society’s most vulnerable are those suffering the most from heat stress-related illnesses or food-related diseases—the elderly and the very young...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 3–8.
Published: 01 March 2013
.... Despite global changes in climate, technology, and the economy, we still stubbornly feel national. The power of this sentiment can be seen in the continued efforts of Kurds, Palestinians, and others to seek national states. From the Basque Country to Xinjiang, most nationalist movements have little...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 120–129.
Published: 01 December 2014
... to anywhere else. That’s why if I got an offer from abroad, I would go, for sure. For doing the exact same thing, I’d get paid twice as much.” Illustration: Damien Glez At a dinner in a Basque restaurant in Madrid, six young people, from 27 to 33 years old, gathered to assess their lives...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 21–30.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., the Asturian mining region, Basque country, and Catalonia remain leftist or separatist, while northwestern Galicia and Castile-León are still on the conservative right. Madrid and the Mediterranean coast switched to the right more recently. This is where most of the economic and housing boom took place, until...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 33–42.
Published: 01 March 2013
... cows of Spain’s welfare state—free health care and education for all—was hotly contested by a broad spectrum of the country. Catalonia and its capital of Barcelona, the Basque country, and Andalucia have said “no” to the law. The main labor federations denounced the ruling as a violation of human...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (1): 9–18.
Published: 01 March 2000
... of and even help destroy it. The impact of civil the Basque separatist movement. The bloody society on democratization appears to be de­ confrontation between the national army termined not by the collective strength of and the eta served as a violent backdrop to its various components...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (3): 1–14.
Published: 01 September 2004
... relatively clean image are more like the Irish Republican Army or among Palestinians with respect to corrup­ the Basque separatist organization eta than tion will stand it in good stead in the elec­ the al-Qaeda network. toral politics of an independent Palestinian state. Its message of social...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (1): 47–60.
Published: 01 March 2005
... the against neighbors. Even Spain, the darling Huerta government and Washington. At of democratization scholars, saw its reputa­ the Niagara Falls, Ontario, mediation con­ tion tarnished for having conducted a “dirty ference of May-June 1914, Wilson’s insis­ war” against Basque separatist groups fol­...