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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 38–42.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Aziz Z. Huq While domestic security forces around the world equip themselves with military-grade weapons and surveillance technologies, those who research crime have reached a different consensus: To reduce lawbreaking, officers should listen to the accused, show basic courtesy, and exhibit...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (2): 39–47.
Published: 01 June 2000
.... The Crusaders Moral Principles, Strategic Interests, and Military Force D av id R ieff Victory in the Cold War has left American have had in the past ten years in defining policymakers and military personnel, not to either U.S. interests or U.S. values coher­ mention the public...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (1): 56–66.
Published: 01 March 2001
... A Force for Democratization? Rebecca R. Moore During the 2000 presidential campaign, his decision to de-link human rights from George W. Bush expressed his support for the annual review of China’s most-favored- extending permanent normal trade relations nation trade status, he promised...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 51–54.
Published: 01 December 2017
... growers. During that period, U.S.-funded forced eradication policies led to violent conflicts between Indigenous farmers and government troops. The ascension of Morales, who took power in 2005 as the first Indigenous Bolivian president, brought that policy to an end. Since then, the administration has...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 99–106.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., it is often easier for women to have a male ‘guardian,’ be it the father, brother, or husband,” says Lana Khattab, a Syrian-Austrian consultant on gender issues. But the realities of war and displacement mean that a significant number of women are being forced to reconfigure their lives outside of traditional...
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Published: 01 June 2017
A local farmer points to where he fled from security forces. ICIJ ONLINE More
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Published: 01 June 2013
Hostile Territory: The sparsely populated, frigid, and forbidding landscape along the Malangen fjord in the Norwegian Arctic Circle presents a profound challenge for military forces. More
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World Policy Journal (2008) 25 (4): 145–151.
Published: 01 December 2008
... and cultural insurgents (“Jihad”) —were actually closely connected to one another. Centripetal forces driven by the consumer economy and centrifugal forces driven by antipathy to the consumer economy manifested the same destructive logic. © 2009 World Policy Institute 2009 World Policy Institute ...
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Published: 01 June 2013
British Royal Marines learn warm-up exercises to prevent frostbite—a priority for NATO forces in the Arctic. Buddy systems make sure soldiers care for themselves and their mates as they head out carrying 100-pound packs. More
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Published: 01 March 2013
Members of a Philippine marine landing team prepare for deployment in the wake of the beheading of 15 marines in southwestern Mindanao. The security and economic stability of Mindanao always deteriorates in the wake of any armed clashes between government forces and guerrillas fighting More
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 58–69.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Guillaume Darribau; Brenna Bhandar Since the Great Recession of 2008, hundreds of thousands of Spaniards have been forced from their homes. For over five years, photographer Guillaume Darribau has documented the Spanish neighborhood hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis, the area of Barcelona known...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 80–87.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Douglas Gillison Douglas Gillisonand the investigative journalism group 100Reporters have revealed that the United States provided security training to members of Cambodia’s Royal Gendarmerie involved in violent forced evictions and to alleged murderers and kidnappers in Cambodia’s National Police...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 30–31.
Published: 01 March 2017
... World Policy Journal analyzes the emergence of far-right parties as a political force in Europe. ANATOMY RISE OF THE FAR RIGHT IN EUROPE Buoyed by fears of refugees, terrorism, and the European Union’s open borders, far-right parties have emerged as a political force. BEFORE...
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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 (2017) 34 (1): 93–99.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Laleh Khalili From the Napoleonic era to the present day, waging war has gone hand in hand with building roads. Laleh Khalili, politics professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, describes how both U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Israeli authorities...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 93–104.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Taimur Khan Journalist Taimur Khan investigates a military-led campaign of extrajudicial killings in Karachi. Khan argues that while the operation has led to a citywide decline in violence, it is not sustainable and has hollowed out the already meager abilities of the civilian police force...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 1–4.
Published: 01 June 2016
... Across the world, property prices in the inner city are spiking, forcing poor and middle-class residents out of their communities. World Policy Journal asked a panel of four experts how governments can work with the private sector to ensure that cities maintain genuinely affordable housing...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 12–14.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Mai El-Sadany The Egyptian government has repeatedly violated the law with arbitrary arrests, torture in detention, and forced disappearances. But in the past, Egyptian legal expert Mai El-Sadany says, at least these measures could have been challenged in court. Today a person may be subjected...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 42–56.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Showkat Nanda More than 90,000 people have been killed in Kashmir since the armed insurgency broke out in 1989. About eight years ago, the conflict transformed; gun-wielding militants were replaced by stone-throwing young men and boys, but India’s response—sustained oppression by security forces...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (3): 25–33.
Published: 01 September 2005
... than sim­ tagon planners. Many of the high-tech ple numerical comparisons of Chinese and weapons and forces designed to fight mod­ Taiwanese forces and is largely devoid of ern militaries are of limited utility against analysis.2 suicide terrorists and roadside bombs. So Lacking comparative...