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Security Council Reform: China Signals Its Veto
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (1): 19–29.
Published: 01 March 2005
... policy or position of the center or the U.S.
Department of Defense.
Security Council Reform: China Signals Its Veto
J . Mohan M alik
The long-awaited landmark report on re report supports the belief that a revamped
forming the United Nations will most like Security...
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The Great European Unraveling?
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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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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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Bottling Up Discontent: Chennai’s Black Market for Water
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 25–33.
Published: 01 June 2016
.... But in such a poorly regulated environment, “clean” water is often dirty, putting millions at risk of falling ill. She puts forward a number of possible plans, including pani panchayats , or citizen-led water councils inspired by institutions in rural India. Pani panchayats now exist in various rural and semi...
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An Iraqi Discovers Arendt
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (4): 83–86.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Kanan Makiya This essay is adapted from a lecture at Hannah Arendt: Right Now, a conference co-sponsored by the NYU Institute for the Humanities and the Humanities Council at NYU, in December 2006. © 2007 World Policy Institute 2007 World Policy Institute ...
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The United Nations Rediscovered?
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (2): 1–5.
Published: 01 June 2004
... Urquhart
Last year, the president of the United States will be an obvious target, notwithstanding
declared the United Nations “irrelevant” to the Security Council’s creation of a special
the future of Iraq, perhaps even to any ma military organization to provide security for
jor problem...
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Humanitarian Intervention: Getting Past the Reefs
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (2): 21–30.
Published: 01 June 2001
... of action in the face of human rights abuses,
year, at the U.N. General Assembly, he as over the citadels of state sovereignty. To its
serted that “the core challenge to the Secu detractors, it is an oxymoron, a pretext for
rity Council and to the United Nations military intervention often devoid...
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Killing One’s Progeny: America and the United Nations
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (3): 54–59.
Published: 01 September 2002
... all the Iraqi violations of Security
the elimination of discrimination against Council resolutions to justify collective ac
women go unratified. tion. But in the end, the speech was more of
Other international bodies have been an ultimatum to the Security Council than...
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“A Fiasco but Not a Disaster”: Europe’s Search for a Constitution
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (1): 50–59.
Published: 01 March 2004
... is shared be
life more efficient, its conscious objective tween the European Council, regular meet
was to insulate the euro zone from zig-zag ings of the member states’ leaders whose
movements in the dollar. agenda is set by a presidency that rotates
This goal has seemingly been...
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Making a State a State
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 24–32.
Published: 01 March 2013
... a poem written by a Russian soldier during the 19th century war between Russia and Turkey: There should also be a place for national wannabes like Abkhazia to take their case if denied. Within the UN system it could function similarly to the UN’s Trusteeship Council, which was established to promote...
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Anarchy and Order in the New Age of Prevention
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (3): 1–23.
Published: 01 September 2005
... is also a senior associate of
the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International A ffairs, and visiting professor of political science a t L a Salle University.
H is most recent book is Winning the World: Lessons for America’s Future from the Cold War. The views expressed
here are those...
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A Seat at the Table: The Fight for Gender Parity in Kenya and Somalia
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 10–15.
Published: 01 December 2016
... NAIROBI, Kenya—When Bina Maseno was 23, she decided to run for Council Assembly in Nairobi City County and reached out to a few experienced female politicians for advice. She expected to hear suggestions for navigating party power dynamics or articulating campaign messages for a broader audience. But what...
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The International Criminal Court Controversy
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (2): 71–81.
Published: 01 June 2001
..., the parties are obligated to pun Council of ad hoc international criminal tri
ish persons committing acts of genocide bunals— in 1993 for the former Yugoslavia
“whether they are constitutionally responsi and in 1994 for Rwanda. (Critics saw the tri
ble rulers, public officials or private indi bunals...
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Radical Democracy: Spain’s Cities Overthrow Neoliberalism
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 90–95.
Published: 01 September 2017
... on neoliberal logic. Upon the electoral victory of citizen-led platforms, hacktivists, programmers, and grass-roots organizers went to work in local government institutions. Pablo Soto, a programmer known for developing early peer-to-peer networks, became a delegate in Madrid’s City Council. Speaking...
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Oppression Must Fall: South Africa’s Revolution in Theory
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 30–37.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., was unseasonably cool. Nonetheless, Randall Carolissen, chairperson of the executive council of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), appeared hot under the collar as he raised the microphone to his mouth for the third time. Flanked by a handful of other council members, he sat at a shabby folding table...
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Rough Drafts: A personal account of the 25-year struggle to craft the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 46–50.
Published: 01 December 2017
... from the Americas who had gathered to produce a document that would reflect Indigenous worldviews. We were sequestered in a small room adjacent to the ongoing plenary session of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples at a prominent hotel in Panama City. The intent was to finalize a declaration...
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Bush V. Annan: Taming the United Nations
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (1): 9–18.
Published: 01 March 2005
... to “save Kofi
geration, as we shall see. and rescue the U .N .” From the Council on
On the other side is the great amor Foreign Relations came Holbrooke and the
phous mass of global liberalism, all clucking council’s former president Leslie Gelb; from
in unison that Kofi Annan...
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Nation Building in East Timor
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (2): 76–87.
Published: 01 June 2002
... The Security Council had authorized a
Council devised a unique mandate. For the large, though less comprehensive and domi
first time in history, it took total control of nant, U .N . administration for Kosovo only
a country, with all executive, legislative, ju four months earlier...
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Iran’s Emerging National Compact
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (3): 43–50.
Published: 01 September 2002
... mandates. Thus, the supreme leader (Vali-ye
tion that would deny the clerics on the Faqih) was invested with the power to abro
Council of Guardians—the political fortress gate election results and to select the heads
of orthodoxy and autocracy—the highhand of the armed forces, the judiciary...
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The Feebleness of the Northern Powerhouse
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 14–18.
Published: 01 June 2016
... what is the Powerhouse actually about? A cynic might suggest it’s about the implementation of decisions made elsewhere, which has long been a speciality of Conservative governments, where cuts and privatizations made in Westminster are implemented by Labour councils on the ground. For both parties...
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