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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 43–48.
Published: 01 December 2011
... years between China and India that would make life there untenable for the Tibetan people? Sangay: The ultimate goal of the Chinese government is to assimilate Tibet and the Tibetan people into China. Having said that, Tibetans are still a majority in inner Tibetan areas. The Chinese...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 91–98.
Published: 01 June 2017
... fighting against the rebels. Their exact number is hard to confirm, as they keep a low profile. Zheleznov puts it at 200, while others speak of several dozen. These Russians are, in effect, battling a proxy military force that is sustained by their own government and that includes their former comrades...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 20–23.
Published: 01 December 2017
... of food and clothing, and was once used for transportation. It’s also significant in another way—for hundreds of years, the Swedish government has used reindeer to control our society. Government efforts to regulate the Sámi began in the 17th century, when the state forcibly converted many Sámi...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 24–27.
Published: 01 December 2017
... in an enclosed zone northeast of the city of Beersheba. Today, more than 270,000 Bedouin live in the Naqab region. Approximately half live in government-planned towns, and the other half reside in “unrecognized” villages. The Indigenous Arab Bedouin make up 31 percent of the entire population of the Naqab...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 108–113.
Published: 01 March 2018
...). They use the same cards to vote and to file their taxes, a process that takes three to five minutes. Estonians’ health records, house and car registration, and educational information are all online, cross-referenced and accessible to them as well as to the government, their bank, and their doctors...
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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 (2013) 30 (3): 3–8.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of corruption. The public has a right to know what areas of governmental activity its government wishes to keep secret, what the justifications are, and what respective independent review systems are in place to serve the public interest. Not all governments are alike. There are not just differences...
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in Neither Truth nor Reconciliation: Why Indonesia’s Army Wants the Country to Forget its Darkest Year
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Published: 01 December 2016
Members of the Indonesian army discuss strategy on the night of Oct. 1, 1965. GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA Members of the Indonesian army discuss strategy on the night of Oct. 1, 1965. / GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
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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
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World Policy Journal (2008) 25 (3): 153–156.
Published: 01 September 2008
...), then the Central Intelligence Agency ( i.e. , the American government) and Afghanistan would go back to a normal, less embracing relationship. © 2008 World Policy Institute 2008 World Policy Institute ...
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World Policy Journal (2008) 25 (3): 37–40.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Nikki R. Keddie Ironically, the title of my 1987 World Policy Journal article, “Iranian Imbroglios: Who's Irrational?” could serve as well today, 21 years later, for another essay on U.S. policy in Iran. My original effort noted the folly of U.S. government hubris—believing it could maneuver...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 1–2.
Published: 01 June 2017
... governments to account. Grass-roots organizers, especially in concert with researchers and politicians, can help hold even authoritarian governments to account. As Mari Margil of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund argues in her piece, “For governments to make the right choice—what through...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 8–11.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Mari Margil A global movement is attempting to transform the legal systems that govern humankind’s relationship with the environment. Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund’s Mari Margil argues that we must stop treating the planet as if it exists solely for human exploitation and recognize...
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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 (2017) 34 (2): 43–54.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Baz Dreisinger Singapore has transformed its prison system over the last 20 years to focus on rehabilitation, and recidivism rates have fallen by nearly 50 percent. But Baz Dreisinger finds that the government’s push to employ former prisoners is driven more by an abundance of low-level jobs than...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 64–68.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Fernanda Canofre Brazil is in the midst of perhaps the most sweeping criminalization of indigenous rights in recent history. The “ruralists,” politicians in Congress with ties to the country’s influential agribusiness lobby, are pushing through legislation to rob independent government agencies...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 90–95.
Published: 01 September 2017
... served as a precursor to Occupy Wall Street, have spread to urban centers across Spain. After electoral wins in Barcelona, Madrid, A Coruña, and elsewhere, former activists have ushered in changes to the business of governance that offer a credible and compelling alternative to neoliberalism. Copyright...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 25–33.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Kavitha Rajagopalan World Policy Institute fellow and author Kavitha Rajagopalan investigates the informal water economy of Chennai, a city in southern India. She finds that the government’s failure to dependably distribute clean water has made black-market dealings a necessity...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 34–35.
Published: 01 June 2016
... Shanghai is only about 13 feet above sea level. While the Chinese government has scrambled to build dikes and seawalls, if more is not done and global temperatures warm by 4 degrees Celsius, almost the entire city will be underwater. MAP ROOM
SHANGHAI: AFTER THE FLOOD
Shanghai, China’s most...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 57–61.
Published: 01 June 2016
... Thaksin Shinawatra, the former prime minister of Thailand, is one of the world’s most polarizing figures, whose words still reverberate across Southeast Asia. His tenure at the helm of the Thai government in the early 2000s marked a growing rift between Thailand’s urban middle class and the rural...
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