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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 6–10.
Published: 01 December 2017
... live there. The history of Bikin National Park is inseparable from the history of my people, and over the decades the land has been a valuable lens through which to observe the workings of Russian national politics. After years of struggle, in 2015 Bikin became the first national park project in which...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 105–111.
Published: 01 March 2016
... [and] could liberate energy on an industrial scale.” Within a year, Szilard had patented the neutron-induced nuclear chain reaction. Twelve years later, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay would drop the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima. The science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke once said, “When...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (4): 35–42.
Published: 01 December 2006
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World Policy Journal (2007) 24 (2): 39–44.
Published: 01 June 2007
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 95–103.
Published: 01 March 2002
... India.
Democracy’s Biggest Gamble
India’s First Free Elections in 1952
Ramachandra Guha
It is now exactly 50 years since India’s first Representation of the People Act, which set
general elections, a massive act of faith with the voting age at 21 and gave...
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in Shaky Foundations: The fundamental flaw at the heart of a “model” treaty involving New Zealand and the Indigenous Māori community
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Published: 01 December 2017
British Captain James Cook first arrived in New Zealand in 1769 SIDS1 / JESSICA SPENGLER British Captain James Cook first arrived in New Zealand in 1769. / SIDS1 / JESSICA SPENGLER
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (2): 87–88.
Published: 01 June 2001
... to a special office called tional Institute for International Manage
the Feedback Unit, or directly to the minis ment Development, ranked Singapore first
tries and government agencies. They can for its legal framework. In this ranking, Sin
also see their Members of Parliament at gapore topped 47...
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Published: 01 March 2013
Since war broke out in 2008 on Mindanao, a renewed national and local effort has focused on upgrading facilities and providing accessible health services to pregnant women and mothers as well as measuring and evaluating babies—a first step in monitoring nutrition. Since war broke out in 2008
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World Policy Journal (2008) 25 (3): 137–140.
Published: 01 September 2008
...William D. Hartung At first glance, the international arms trade seems to be one of those problems that will always be with us, like death and taxes. But just as life can be prolonged and tax rates can be reduced, the traffic in weapons can be reined in, given the political will to do so, as I...
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World Policy Journal (2007) 24 (2): 81–84.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Forrest D. Colburn Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi has a distinguished history in the politics of what has long been known as the “Third World,” most of which were once beleaguered colonies of Europe. After the Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Indonesia, in 1955—the first coming together...
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World Policy Journal (2007) 24 (3): 83–88.
Published: 01 September 2007
...—which ran first in the International Herald Tribune and later in many other papers—caused an enormous stir. It was the first time a senior Soviet official had talked at length to a Western journalist on the record, without notes, and answered every question put to him in an easy, conversational manner...
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World Policy Journal (2010) 27 (3): 75–79.
Published: 01 September 2010
...J.T. Simms The World Policy Journal , in partnership with Africa Rural Connect, a program of the National Peace Corps Association, supporting returned Peace Corps volunteers and the Peace Corps community, conducted the first contest in the 27-year history of our magazine. Readers and followers...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 67–81.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Diàna Markosian Photographer Diàna Markosian worked with Milad Ahkabyar , a high school student in Düsseldorf, Germany, to document his first year in Europe. Milad and his family fled violence in Afghanistan and are still waiting to hear if they can legally stay in their new home...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 20–21.
Published: 01 March 2016
... In 2012, prior to the London Olympics, Prime Minister David Cameron said London was “probably the most diverse city in the world.” Unlike many other metropolitan areas, where nonwhite populations form stark rings around a city, London at first glance may not seem geographically divided...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Christopher Shay The fight for multiracial, multiethnic democracies is urgent, according to editor Christopher Shay . The aims of this "Fascism Rising" issue are, first, to analyze the strategies autocrats have used to distort history, erase truth, and mobilize their publics and, second, to explore...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 35–38.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Ameenah Gurib-Fakim World Policy Journal speaks with Dr. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, a biochemist who became the first female president of Mauritius. She discusses the importance of integrating science into politics, what prevents women from rising into positions of power, and how her country pulled off...
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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 (2008) 25 (3): 181–183.
Published: 01 September 2008
...James G. Blight In the spring of 2001, Robert McNamara and I wrote in these pages that it was time to bring Russia and China, the (then) big losers at the end of the Cold War, “in from the cold.” At the dawn of the twenty-first century, Russia was feeling betrayed by U.S. advocacy of NATO...
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World Policy Journal (2008) 25 (3): 218–220.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Alan Wolfe My first contribution to World Policy Journal , “Crackpot Moralism, Neo-Realism, and U.S. Foreign Policy,” was published in spring 1986, and explored a seeming paradox in American political life. Figures whose disposition toward the world could only be described as conservative...
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World Policy Journal (2010) 27 (1): 57–58.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Thierry Falise is a Belgian photographer and writer based in Bangkok. He is the author of the novel Les Petits Généraux de Yadana ( Anne Carrière Editions, 2005); the first French biography of the Burmese pro-democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi , Le Jasmin ou la Lune ( Florent Massot Editions, 2007...
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