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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 3–6.
Published: 01 March 2012
... united. Allowing everyone to study in their own tongues restrains people’s ability to keep abreast of the wider national efforts to unify the country. Though freedom of speech is a basic human right that should not be violated, there are certain instances where language policies must reflect national...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 7–12.
Published: 01 March 2012
... group. If Sang is convicted, and perhaps even if he is acquitted, his case will become a landmark in international law on criminal speech. Law, although blunt and unwieldy for this task, is the main tool to rein in dangerous speech without trampling on freedom of expression. In the past 15 years...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (4): 45–51.
Published: 01 December 2013
... freedom. WPJ: So were you, in fact, advocating the overthrow of the ruling party in China? XIA: We believe that in China the unavoidable path for the future is constitutional democracy, rule of law, and individual freedom, so I would fight for freedom of publication, freedom of speech...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 93–103.
Published: 01 June 2015
.... The crowds grow euphoric as salutations to the Hindu deity, Lord Shiva, ring through the air, “ Har har Mahadev !” or “Please take away all our worries.” Adityanath proceeds to deliver a speech with the hallmarks of the country’s right-wing Hindu extremist agenda. Referring to the Gyanvapi mosque, built...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (3): 12–17.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Rebecca Mackinnon As we think globally, those of us lucky enough to live in democracies must not forget that Internet freedom starts at home. If we cannot figure out how to constrain government and corporate power over digital networks people depend on, prepare to join our Ethiopian...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (2): 67–73.
Published: 01 June 2005
... wouldn’t have come to such a purges? What did Khrushchev actually say sorry state, when every foreigner could teach about Stalin in his secret speech? us life. Since then we have lived increasingly At the Twentieth Communist Party useless and dirtier lives,” because “the sec­ Congress, held...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 124–129.
Published: 01 June 2018
... moral prejudices which, as philosopher Jean-Claude Michéa put it, “would be on this very account a society condemned to see crimes everywhere.” It is crucial to see how this excessive moralism is the obverse of the acceptance of the global capitalist system. Oprah Winfrey’s triumphant speech...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (1): 95–99.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Karl E. Meyer The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror , Sharansky Natan Dermer Ron , New York : PublicAffairs , 2004 The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad, Paperback edition, with an afterword on Iraq , Zakaria...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 17 (4): 69–74.
Published: 01 December 2001
...’ lists of po­ speech. Forums on freedom of expression tential advertisees inevitably receive junk e- and politics in Singapore draw decent, but mail touting this or that new dot-com, in not huge, crowds. Few Singaporeans have Singapore, foreign computer experts com­ any understanding...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 5–11.
Published: 01 March 2016
... in fluent, lightly accented French, but then stopped, “I just landed and need a couple of weeks to retrieve my French—so I’ll switch to English.” The former Black Panther described her political trajectory, how she grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1950s, headed north looking for freedom, and then made...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (1): 47–60.
Published: 01 March 2005
... in his AEl in Iraq. “And as the greatest power on the speech. In a subsequent address at White­ face of the earth, we have an obligation to hall in London in November 2003 meant to help the spread of freedom.” The Follies of Democratic Imperialism 49...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (2): 21–30.
Published: 01 June 2001
... Getting Past the Reefs Shashi Tharoor and Sam Daws The subject of humanitarian intervention mitted to the rule of law in world affairs. has come into vogue in recent years, follow­ One upholds a notion of the rule of law ing a remarkable series of speeches made in based on the rights...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 48–53.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., a sense of fear, humiliation, and insecurity gripped German society when the old institutions of empire collapsed. World War I may have brought newfound freedoms to many European countries, but it also produced alienated citizens and conditions that allowed fascism to grow. Barbu explains: “The creation...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 3–6.
Published: 01 December 2011
... peace will naturally follow. We should strive to understand who we really are before we are ensnared by intolerance, jealousy, and greed. When we develop this internal wisdom, the world becomes One House. In great peace, there is great freedom and great wisdom. These transcend the volatility...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 64–66.
Published: 01 June 2016
... that it has given rise to this porno-Islamism that is found in the speeches of Islamist preachers, who use it to recruit their followers: descriptions of a paradise that is closer to a brothel than to any sort of reward for pious men, fantasies of virgins for suicide bombers, war against the body in public...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 71–80.
Published: 01 March 2002
... as in uncoordinated street violence, with ulti­ Iran’s Gorbachev, but never its Yeltsin. Even mately unpredictable political results. As many of the best-known leaders of the re­ President Khatami himself put it in a recent form movement, such as Abdul Karim speech at Tehran University: “If the differ­...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (4): 79–86.
Published: 01 December 2013
... revolutionaries and which are in it for fame. But one thing is certain—the rebellions that shook the Arab world tore open a space for hip-hop in politics, destroying the wall of fear around freedom of expression. And governments across the region are now watching hip-hop’s advance with a blend of contempt...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (1): 59–67.
Published: 01 March 2003
... 11, the human rights— as for example, where pro­ United States is once again making allies of tecting religious freedom means condoning countries that violate human rights— as it religious practices that involve subordina­ did during the Cold War— this time in the tion or mistreatment of women...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 88–93.
Published: 01 June 2018
... to obstruct the people’s freedom and the warm friendship of the USSR and Mongolia.” As to whether substance matched style, the speeches themselves read like this: “We shall unite ourselves and devote our lives and property to the work of uniting the minds of the people . . . the aim is more rights...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (2): 70–79.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Ronan Keenan A lack of political transparency, a favoring of some forms of religion over others, and indiscriminate crackdowns on apparent security threats will not enhance the authorities’ standing among the marginalized. As the Arab Spring demonstrated, brutally quashing free speech...
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