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Cologne, Scene of Fantasies
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 64–66.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Kamel Daoud Cologne, scene of fantasies, therefore. Those fantasies perfected by the extreme right, which cries out “invasion of barbarians,” and those of the aggressors, who desire the naked body because it is a public body that doesn’t belong to anyone. No one waited for the perpetrators...
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The Big Question: How Do Sex and Sexuality Affect One’s Role in Society?
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 3–8.
Published: 01 March 2014
... with caste-fuelled notions of pollution and purity, forever transforming the land of the Kama Sutra. Mahatma Gandhi personified this destructive mix, with his lifelong, anguished struggle to purge himself of sexual desires. Though the chaotic, contradictory billion-plus India of today bears little...
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The American Way of Empire
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (1): 45–61.
Published: 01 March 2006
... make all our sister to all the goods of the world (usually by
nations of the American continent purchase)— and that includes lands of the
feel that we desire to show ourselves Native Americans as well as worldly re
disinterestedly and effectively their sources beyond...
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Trans[ition] in Iran
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 28–38.
Published: 01 March 2014
... “filtering”—a legal process of gender transition that involves a four-to-six month period of psychotherapy, along with hormonal and chromosomal tests. The stated goal, according to Harvard professor Afsaneh Najmabadi, is to distinguish and segregate “true transsexuals,” for whom same-sex desires...
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Rethinking Ivory: Why Trade in Tusks Won’t Go Away
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (2): 91–100.
Published: 01 June 2013
.... But the Big Burn theory doesn’t make any sense. it’s a fantasy to think that the desire for this alluring material, sought after and fought over since prehistory, will ever completely fade away . Persuading three dozen African countries, the range states where elephants are found, to agree to sell...
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Africa’s “Scramble for Africa”: Lessons of a Continental War
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (2): 11–20.
Published: 01 June 2000
... largely
desire for regional influence, but also by the through the diamond trade— the precious
need to prevent external assistance to their stones being smuggled out through Zaire
foes at home. and arms returning by the same route.
Rwanda’s interventions in Congo...
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Contesting Peace: Why Japan Needs A Real Debate on Pacifism
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 12–20.
Published: 01 September 2016
... the question of why the wartime calamities, including the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, came about in the first place. By calling attention to its own victimhood on the one hand and highlighting its general desire for peace on the other, the conservative Japanese regime, in power most...
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Thus Spake Nano
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 35–38.
Published: 01 September 2011
... there are. But if you ask users, they will tell you they prefer to own a car.” Radical innovations, Verganti suggests, require changing our very understandings of our objects of desire, which in turn depends on sensing or anticipating tectonic shifts in the larger culture. His paragons are companies like Apple...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 15–19.
Published: 01 March 2016
... reside. In the U.K., methodological nationalism has obscured the importance of more global approaches to fighting racism. Taking an intra-state strategy has allowed the government to focus on promoting diversity while avoiding addressing structural inequalities caused by racism. The desire...
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Goodbye, Venezuela
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 26–36.
Published: 01 December 2015
... experienced a high-risk pregnancy. She wasn’t going to lose her only son to the Wild West that Venezuela had become. Nelson was born in Miami. About his mother’s desire to have her only child in the United States, he says, “I thank her every time I can, because it opened up a lot of possibilities for my...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 March 2016
... group in Israel, have many professionals who send their children to private schools. Additionally, there may be antagonism toward giving Arabs special treatment, given that many Jewish Israelis resent that Arabs do not participate in certain civic duties like military service. The desire...
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Latin Justice: A New Look
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (3): 57–64.
Published: 01 September 2013
... to three years if there were others cut. jury service is the perfect diversion of this desire for democratic participation from the street to the courtoom. Only rarely discussed is whether all this energy spent in working toward a new system is worth it—whether a pure adversarial system...
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Turks, Armenians, and the “G-Word”
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (3): 81–93.
Published: 01 September 2005
.... change in recent years. The end of the Cold
Turkish culture also often shows a predilec War lessened Western willingness to in
tion to a fatalism rooted in the folk Islam of dulge Turkish authoritarianism, and Tur
Anatolia. key’s desire to enter the European Union...
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Woodrow Wilson’s “New Diplomacy”
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (2): 92–107.
Published: 01 June 2004
... significance. In doing so, a course of territo
ficiency and showed little tendency to do so rial expansion over the remaining continent
at the time. Belief in the desirability and, was not only seen as compatible with a poli
indeed, the necessity of America’s foreign cy of isolation from Europe...
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India and the United States: Forging a Security Partnership
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (2): 37–43.
Published: 01 June 2005
... a global war on terrorism, only
Pakistan. While desirable, this goal is diffi served to raise the level of security coopera
cult to achieve in practice. For the United tion and dialogue between Washington and
States, this means viewing India more as a New Delhi.
country in its own right...
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Free Markets and Their Umpires: The Appeal of the U.s. Regulatory Model
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (2): 51–58.
Published: 01 June 2005
... from existing gov experts decision-makers instead of requiring
ernment structures was desirable.9 The Eu them to report to a non-expert bureaucrat
ropean Commission has also supported the short circuits inefficiencies.
adoption of independent regulation in For the European market...
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Plus Ça Change: Along the Rue de Caumartin [Doing No Harm]
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 116–125.
Published: 01 December 2012
... the most valiant efforts of politicians across the political spectrum, and despite even the apparent desires of much of the electorate. As I chronicled in my Coda in our last issue of World Policy Journal , the desire for “change,” or at least the appearance of change, has been overwhelming...
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Arab Democracy: Dismal Prospects
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (3): 53–60.
Published: 01 September 2001
... the year
exceptionally strong political imperatives in the black— that is the market’s measure
and enterprises. of success is superceded by political require
At the local level, we know that the ments— the desirability of high employ
cash economy has not eradicated...
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Killing for Airtime: How Boko Haram’s Abubakar Shekau manipulates media
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 58–62.
Published: 01 June 2018
... said. “It’s violence, but made for TV.” The motivation to attack often goes back to the desire for power and impact. In 1999, America experienced its first mass school shooting when two teenagers at a high school in Columbine, Colorado, killed 12 of their fellow students and one teacher. The nearly...
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The Big Question: What should governments keep secret?
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (3): 3–8.
Published: 01 September 2013
... to development zoning and food safety. In Singapore, perceived lack of transparency over population policy brought thousands out in an unprecedented protest in early 2013. Similarly, a desire for openness in the treatment of military personnel and the military justice system prompted approximately 250,000...
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