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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 56–67.
Published: 01 June 2011
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (3): 50–63.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Diana Markosian; Tyler Stiem © World Policy Institute 2014 2014 World Policy Institute Tyler Stiem’s work in Burma is supported in part by funding from the Canada Council for the Arts. Diana Markosian is a documentary photographer working in Russia and the former Soviet Union, whose...
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World Policy Journal (2010) 27 (1): 57–58.
Published: 01 March 2010
...); and Le Châtiment des Rois ( Florent Massot, 2009) on the devastating toll of Cyclone Nargis. He has covered Burma, legally and clandestinely, for more than 20 years. © 2010 World Policy Institute 2010 World Policy Institute ...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (2): 70–75.
Published: 01 June 2002
... or smoked and provide intense
nineteenth-century addiction, today use of surges of energy similar to a cocaine high—
heroin, methamphetamines, and other drugs Burma-based drug traffickers have shifted
is skyrocketing, and Chinese gangs have ag their focus to China. Most notably...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (1): 60–67.
Published: 01 March 2004
...,
mous royal palace and other tourist sights that “throughout Burma, the government
flowed in and out of the glitzy lobby, un habitually makes use of forced labor.” Later,
aware of the activity upstairs. as the pipeline was being built, the same
Despite the seeming ordinariness...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (3): 1–2.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., describes how judicious application of copyrights and patents can support our coveted rights to privacy. In our Portfolio, photographer Diana Markosian returns to our pages, accompanied this time by writer Tyler Stiem, who infiltrated the Kachin territory of Burma to put to rest any illusion...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 1–2.
Published: 01 June 2011
... microfinance in Palestine, takes us to Kiribati, in the remote South Pacific—a nation in danger of extinction that is seeking a path to survival for its 100,000 citizens. On other subjects, our Portfolio photographer, Saiful Huq Omi, spent two years chronicling the heartbreaking plight of Burma’s Rohingya...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 17 (4): 69–74.
Published: 01 December 2001
... showed that,
political issues or even relatively nonpoliti among eight Southeast Asian states, the only
cal topics such as H IV, Singaporeans are by country where it was harder to obtain infor
far the most timid Southeast Asians, fre mation about the government was Burma,
quently refusing...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (4): 41–44.
Published: 01 December 2013
... long corridor surrounded by Nepal, Burma, Bangladesh, and Bhutan, would be threatened. That’s why soon after the 2013 elections, India’s National Security Advisor, Shivshankar Menon arrived in Thimphu to congratulate the new prime minister, Tshering Tobgay. India also just promised 50 billion...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 101–110.
Published: 01 December 2017
... families were anxious. “Please don’t send us to Burma, not there . . . anywhere, but not there,” chanted Amir Husain, a 55-year-old in a Jammu slum, feverishly in Hindi. When Rafik returned from prayer, he showed me images of his village in Rakhine, which had burned to the ground two weeks earlier...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (4): 32–35.
Published: 01 December 2013
... signed a dozen agreements that are “likely to form the cornerstone of tangible interaction between India and Burma over the next few years,” observes Price. India’s foreign secretary, Ranjan Mathai, described the measures as “a whole series of small but significant steps to ensure that our relationship...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 43–48.
Published: 01 December 2011
... India, and some would say they are also trying to co-opt Burma, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. India clearly sees the assertiveness of the hardliners in China. So, alas, rapprochement doesn’t seem likely. WPJ: Are you at all concerned that there could be some kind of a rapprochement in the coming...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 17 (4): 2–5.
Published: 01 December 2001
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World Policy Journal (2003) 19 (4): 66–71.
Published: 01 December 2003
.... Committee for
million in Burma, and perhaps as many Refugees, the program lacks adequate
in Iraq. funding.
In 1998, Francis M. Deng, the represen Ending displacement and its human
tative of the U.N. secretary general on inter costs goes...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 25–35.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., stretching east from promising to rebuild, most South Asians
Afghanistan to Burma and south from the — about 1.4 billion people— will remain
Himalayas to the Indian Ocean, as strategi trapped in poverty approaching the levels
cally important to Washington. That meant of sub-Saharan Africa, as annual...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 81–88.
Published: 01 September 2012
... peacekeepers. Tribalism and identity have bled into politics from Aceh to Abkhazia, Kurdistan to Kashmir. There are so many more—Palestine, India, North Caucasus, Rwanda, Mali, Burma, Thailand, Nigeria, the Balkans, Sudan, SriLanka, China, Kenya. In an ideal world, everyone would get along under one political...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 124–132.
Published: 01 June 2011
... equally intense stories of suffering and censorship, torture and death. Much of the world, or at least the West, has come to the aid of the rebels of Benghazi. But what about the rebels of Bahrain or Syria, Burma or Nachevan? (Yes, even that tiny breakaway republic of repressive Azerbaijan has its own...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 94–105.
Published: 01 December 2012
... in the creation of school history curricula. Then there’s the question of just what George Orwell was trying to say about Imperial Britain in his famous essay “Shooting an Elephant.” “When the white man turns tyrant,” Orwell observed from colonial Burma, “it is his own freedom that he destroys.” The concept...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (3): 31–39.
Published: 01 September 2004
... rights, but a precedent was nonethe also picked up steam in the 1980s. Various
less established. groups, both domestic and foreign, moni
Likewise, human rights were not at the tored the human rights situation in South
top of the agenda when the Helsinki Ac Korea, Burma...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 43–54.
Published: 01 June 2017
... the country’s inception. Like Australia, this was a penal colony. Between 1825 and 1867, 15,000 “convicts” from India, Burma, and Ceylon were shipped here to become, essentially, the public works department, clearing jungle, filling in swamps, and building roads, sea walls, and most of the country’s historical...
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