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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 55–60.
Published: 01 December 2016
... began the migrant crisis as the continent's life guard and first-aid provider, but Europe has now forced the country to be its warden, too. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 refugees migration Greece European Union asylum refugee crisis CHIOS, Greece—Ahmed Abdo spends his...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 68–72.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Alina Polyakova After Britain voted to leave the EU, the European dream of a united continent is at risk but not dead. The Atlantic Council's Alina Polyakova argues that EU leaders must create opportunities for young people to reap the benefits of the economic bloc's accomplishments. Unless a new...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 1–2.
Published: 01 December 2012
...David A. Andelman © World Policy Institute 2012 2012 World Policy Institute Ray Morris Africa has had its moments of hope and optimism, but this is the one that promises a genuine, lasting takeoff. Across this diverse continent of 54 sovereign nations and more than a billion people...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 1–2.
Published: 01 December 2014
... increasingly bleak, if hardly lacking for excitement and wealth. Armies of unemployed youths, crushing tax burdens, and anemic or negative growth has left large stretches of this continent gasping on life support. It is the nature of this urban, suburban, and rural landscape that we set out to explore...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 43–46.
Published: 01 December 2014
... dominate the economics of the continent, but foreign policy of member states mostly disregards this fact. When both Paris and Berlin voiced strong support for the Ukrainian cause, those very EU members that border the country, Hungary and Slovakia, chose to side largely with Putin. After the Czech Republic...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (3): 112–122.
Published: 01 September 2015
...David A. Andelman Certainly many of these problems faced by Latin America and Africa should prove to be a cautionary tale for the vast populations of Asia. As diverse and disunited as the nations of these other two still developing continents, their differences pale in comparison with Asia. Yet...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (3): 41–45.
Published: 01 September 2015
... way. WPJ: So, that’s the question—do we move to a system where we grow, cook, and consume food locally—instead of shipping produce and products across continents? MCGARRY: Local food is central. I’d say techniques and some ingredients may come from around the world, like a way of doing...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 3–7.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Institute Nairobi, photo by: Nite Owl Four steps are crucial in ensuring that technology can enable long-term development on the continent. First is transforming the educational system in most African countries, now focused on paper certification and producing job-seekers, into one that can...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 120–129.
Published: 01 December 2014
...—but a thin veneer on a fragile, often fracturing structure that is teetering beneath the surface. Europe today is a disaster waiting to happen. Indeed, in many corners it is already upon us. The continent is firmly in the grip of a crisis from which the United States is only just emerging...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (2): 11–20.
Published: 01 June 2000
... for Africa”
Lessons of a Continental War
Jeremy M. Weinstein
The war in the Democratic Republic of the invaded Tanzania in 1978, and only the
Congo ( d r c ), which began in August 1998, third since I960. Although Africa is seen as
is unprecedented— at times involving ar...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (3): 113–122.
Published: 01 September 2014
... or governments. So suddenly the fringe is on the cusp of becoming the mainstream in many European nations, even the European Community itself, the tentacles of whose distant bureaucracy seem to reach into virtually every village and many households in the furthest reaches of the continent. Most victims feel all...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 10–14.
Published: 01 December 2014
... keep getting richer, the poor poorer, jobs outsourced by whatever government—left, right, or center. Few of these products are really appealing. Few seem to be making any effort to find a path out of the crisis gripping our continent. Instead, we get more of the same as voters refuse to tighten...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 March 2015
...—that we set out to explore in the Spring issue of World Policy Journal . We begin with Big Question, a selection of thinkers from every continent reflecting on their country’s biggest fear for the future. The brilliant science fiction writer Neal Stephenson joins us in our Chat Room to discuss what...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 15–19.
Published: 01 March 2016
... the continent clearly demonstrates how Black African lives do not appear to matter, with the U.K. all but ignoring African deaths in the Mediterranean. In 2015, the foreign office minister, Baroness Joyce Anelay, explained that the government does “not support planned search and rescue operations...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 39–45.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of this globalization, Africa should not remain a continent of discrete, often conflicting languages, but rather move toward a single, universal language that fosters international trade and reduces regional conflict. The paramount question of linguistic loyalty is really which of these languages holds a better future...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 1–2.
Published: 01 June 2015
... into which we may be sinking. We begin with Big Question, a selection of thinkers from every continent reflecting on those with the most to lose from climate change in their nation or region. The pioneer environmentalist Lester R. Brown, founder of Worldwatch and Earth Policy Institute, whose 50 books...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 March 2011
... of people, it seemed for a long time that there truly was no way out. Day after day, markets plunged and pink slips flooded forth. Across continents, dreams of a secure future and a comfortable retirement evaporated overnight. Lately, however, hopes for Recovery have replaced the darkest fears...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 21–30.
Published: 01 December 2014
... has the map of the Netherlands and Europe. A similar set of observations could be made in many cities across the continent. New patterns of voting behavior have emerged, reflecting new polarities in changing societies. These polarities are set in the context of centuries-old rivalries that still...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (1): 43–46.
Published: 01 March 2005
... tlers to spread across the continent but nev
plied territorial expansion. Look at a con er supposed the Stars and Stripes would
temporaneous dictionary— say the first edi accompany them. Along the Pacific would
tion of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, pub arise, in Jefferson’s words, “a great...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (1): 79–87.
Published: 01 March 2001
..., with slow road down the continent from Cairo:
an American narrator and Americans in sup trains, buses, boats, trucks, taxis packed so
porting roles. The time is the last decade tightly that my arms and legs fell asleep.
of the twentieth century, post-Cold War. There is a joke among expatriates...
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