...Lawrence S. Finkelstein Copyright © 2003 World Policy Institute 2003 RECONSIDERATIONS Lawrence S. Finkelstein is retired from a career in government, U.N . and nongovernmental service, and academia. He is a founding member o f the Ralph Bunche Centenary Commemoration Committee...

.... Finkelstein, Law rence S .; “ R em em bering Ralph Bunche” (X X :3 ) Foreign C overage” (X X :4 ) Fried, Sam uel R, and Walter Dellinger; “ Promoting the Rule o f Law Abroad: Steiner, M ichael; “ Seven Principles for B uilding P eace” (X X :2 ) How the U .S...

... the jihadist,” Ayari observes. “It’s the only truly anti-systemic ideology in the Arab world right now. They make you dream.” Ayari pauses and laughs at a thought, “and Ennahda—do they make you dream?” “bunches of kids, sometimes dozens, go at a time. the imams may give them a push, but they usually...

....” Another rabid bunch, Hamas, were a valu­ able tool against a brainless but secular M ad Dogs and Satanic Yanks Arafatand in 1953 in Iran, the CIA used Yet Iranians’ abiding personal affinity for some of them to topple the democratic gov­...

... authority on Tibet, Braham Norwick of New York. One hopes this fresh look will begin to revive the memory of an exceptionally interesting figure. Yet Rockhill is scarcely alone in the musty hall of forgotten heroes. Elsewhere in these pages we memorialize Ralph Bunche, another polymath. And our...

...Brian Urquhart Copyright © 2001 World Policy Institute 2001 B rian U rquhart is a former undersecretary general o f the U nited Nations. He is the author o f numerous works, including Hammarskjöld an d Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. The Rusty Tools of Peace...

... come hand-in-hand with actual protectionism (though we are seeing more of this in the U.S. with Trump’s proposed tariffs—we’ll see if he pushes them through). People are very quick to blame globalization for income inequality, but that’s often just shorthand for a bunch of phenomena that include...

... that. We have a bunch of aged teenagers.” Collectively, the votes amounted to a middle finger directed at the French political establishment. They were coupled with extremely high abstention. Two-thirds of registered voters didn’t bother showing up in 2014; just over half didn’t turn out in 2015...

... of the community. In the minds of mainstream society, they were simply a bunch of dropouts in need of a shower. But if you knew how to read the aesthetics of postwar British pop culture, their bashed-up army boots, their piercings, and the unnameable green-brown-grey hue of their clothes signaled that they were...

... as if we are reliving those days of the massacre. This year on the 18th, which was the worst day of the massacre, I woke up crying. I dreamed that a bunch of people came knocking on my door; they dragged me out. I was running through the woods, and I couldn’t find a way out. When I woke up, I thought, “My...

...Brian Urquhart Copyright © 2004 World Policy Institute 2004 Brian Urquhart is a former undersecretary general of the United Nations. His books include A Life in Peace and War, Hammarskjöld, and Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. The United Nations Rediscovered? Brian...

... and ponder questions of memory, representation, and reconciliation. They do that work in very different ways. Writing The Sympathizer was very liberating, because I could say all kinds of things that if I were to say it in an academic way, I would have to use a bunch of footnotes and scholarly methods...

.... The population here is predominately Alaskan Native—Yupik and Cup’ik, specifically. I live in Bethel, which is sort of an anomaly in a bunch of village communities, as it’s a rapidly expanding community of about 6,500 or 7,000 people. Tristan Ahtone: I know you’re originally from California, so how did you...

... ominously, “I would like to know what it is they have in mind exactly—action by the fifth column, this disparate bunch of ‘national traitors,’ or are they hoping to put us in a worsening social and economic situation so as to provoke public discontent?” He promised to “respond accordingly.” On March 18...

... the ruling parties of the So­ manufactured sense of unity and security. viet republics, remains taboo. Nikolai, the An ice cream peddler in the courtyard of a former KGB agent, told me he was fired madrasa informed me that “a bunch of Mus­ from his post because he infringed on the covites” had just...

... Government with Chinese Characteristics to give up their sideline businesses (the mil­ One reason to be cautious in predicting an itary was compensated with higher bud­ early demise for the CCP is that its leaders gets). The decentralization of the 1980s has are not a bunch of aging Brezhnevs...

.... Instead, they envisaged the Islamic bunch of so-called reformers and newspa­ Republic as a parliamentary democracy “run pers?” he asked, adding that the media had not by Shi’i ulama but by experts who are a duty not to publish articles “that might committed Shiites.”11 As such, they appealed...

..., but the worst was But arrest them? Never.” One has the sense yet to come. that extravagant statements on all sides feed As many as 1,300 men were arrested at on each other. gunpoint, forced to lie down on their stom­ Nevertheless, the governor struck a achs, and bunched and tied together...

... of improving human rights, organizing culture in U.N. missions are commonplace, refugee returns, and conducting elections. but as new U.N. peace-building operations “I got a bunch of generalists,” de Mello continue to be mounted, the need for U.N. complained. It was partly as a result...