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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 101–109.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Ioannis N. Grigoriadis © World Policy Institute 2011 2011 World Policy Institute Ankara— Hubris , Ate, and Nemesis are three minor Greek deities, mostly remembered today for their function in ancient Greek drama. Hubris symbolizes arrogance, and deviation from virtue. Ate refers...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 74–84.
Published: 01 December 2012
... members; the many Greeks who, by losing their jobs, lose their social security and are forced to rely on charity for food and health care. Just three years ago, our society was proud to take care of its citizens, immigrants, and visitors. Everyone was on the national health plan; even injured tourists...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (1): 87–103.
Published: 01 March 2000
... irecto r o f the H onors C ollege a t A d elp h i U n iv ersity . The International Dimension of the Greek Civil War John 0. latrides an d Nicholas X . Rizopoulos “I am sure in Greece I found one of the best standing the recondite arguments still rag­ opportunities...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (3): 126–145.
Published: 01 September 2005
...John O. Iatrides Copyright © 2005 World Policy Institute 2005 RECONSIDERATIONS John 0. latrides is professor emeritus of international politics a t Southern Connecticut State University. George F. Kennan and the Birth of Containment The Greek Test Case...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 54–64.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Bryan Doerries Translator and theater director Bryan Doerries describes how he has used ancient Greek tragedies to disrupt hierarchies and create a space for members of the military “to tell their truths of the experiences of war.” Drama can help people suffer openly and communally, sharing...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (2): 55–64.
Published: 01 June 2001
... Patriarchate W hit Mason The second day of the school year in Istan­ was the training ground for the sons of the bul was a good one to be indoors. The air wealthy and powerful Phanariot Greeks. was cool without being fresh and the leaden Originally merchants and shipowners, these skies...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (1): 85–90.
Published: 01 March 2004
... scandals. A relative late­ Greece during 20 of the preceding 23 years, comer to the riotous world of Greek poli­ but also effectively put on hold the meteoric tics, he gained respect— especially abroad— career of George Papandreou, who had been by showing himself to be smart, well-in­ Greece’s foreign...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 73–82.
Published: 01 March 2011
... . The bones belong to victims of the wave of killings that hit Cyprus in July and August 1974, after an attempted coup d'état sparked fighting between the island's Greek-speaking Orthodox Christian majority and its Turkish-speaking Muslim minority. Amid violence triggered by the Greek-backed insurrection...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 55–60.
Published: 01 December 2016
... days in a refugee camp, watching ferryboats come and go from the main port of this Greek island, just 5 miles off the Turkish coast. In July, the 24-year-old Kurd and his family had arrived in a crowded rubber dinghy after a perilous trip across the Aegean Sea. Syria’s civil war had forced them from...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 20 (4): 91–93.
Published: 01 December 2004
... the Aegean coast of Turkey, the fecund cradle from which so much of the modern world emerged. Here, four thousand years ago, in thriving commercial seaports, ethnic Greeks began using currency, devised an alphabet, drew maps, composed Europe’s earliest epics and genuine histories, and examined...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 3–7.
Published: 01 June 2014
... like loan-to-deposit ratios. Finally, the size of outstanding credit as a percentage of GDP in China is much lower than in many other countries, such as the UK, Switzerland, or Japan, thus making the problem manageable. Deposits in Greek financial institutions declined by about €100 billion...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (1): 85–91.
Published: 01 March 2006
... collections.1 Item: In what may be an auspicious precedent, the Metropolitan Museum of Art offered in February to return to Italy a famous Greek krater that it purchased in 1971 for $1 mil­ lion, as part of an agreement under which the New York museum would be promised the extended loan...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 3–8.
Published: 01 December 2014
... is a crucial requirement for these policies to succeed. Figuring out how the Greek government can become viable is like solving a complex system of equations with at least five unknowns: debt, banking losses, investment, welfare, and institutional efficiency. In a social economy where state...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 17 (4): 89.
Published: 01 December 2001
..., Selig S.; "The Missiles of North Korea: How Real a Threat?” (XVII:3) of the Greek Civil War” (XVII: 1) Heilbrunn, Jacob; “A Disdain for the Past: Jorg Haider’s Austria” (XVIL1) Sharpe, Kenneth E., and William M. LeoGrande; “Two Wars or One? Drugs, Heilbrunn, Jacob...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 20–33.
Published: 01 December 2011
... but instead unite over human rights and social justice. Underlining the compatibility of Orthodoxy and religious freedom, he preaches that war in the name of religion is a crime against religion. “On this planet created by God for us all, there is room for all of us,” he said at St. Nicholas’ Greek Orthodox...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 21 (4): 86–90.
Published: 01 December 2005
... the “muscular diplomacy” in large part because courageous but beleaguered Greek rebels it was grounded in a pragmatist’s apprecia­ who had recently raised the flag of inde­ tion of the dynamics of great-power poli­ pendence against their Ottoman overlords— tics and of the benefits, invariably accruing...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (2): 1–2.
Published: 01 June 2012
... with intense rivalries among individuals, villages, and eventually nations. The Greeks invented the Olympics nearly a millennium before the common era, and like today, politics and militarism reared their ugly heads. With a brazen military maneuver in foreign territory in 420 B.C.E., Sparta violated...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 87–94.
Published: 01 March 2013
... have started to return to Greek and Spanish banks; reliance on ECB funding of European banks has been reduced, which likely signals some normalization of the euro area financial markets. the greek railway had more employees than passengers . The improvement in financial stability is real...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 113–121.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of repression for centuries of Ottoman, then Baathist rule. Here, democracy appears to be taking a back seat to religious prejudices. And then there is the whole social ethos of work. In the Summer issue of World Policy Journal , Greek political scientist Ioannis N. Grigoriadis observes that “Greeks...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 22 (4): 94.
Published: 01 December 2006
...) Woodworth, Paddy; "Spain's ‘Second Transition’: Reforming Zeal and Iatrides, John O.; "George F. Kennan and the Birth of Containment: Dire Omens” (XXII: 3) The Greek Test Case” (XXII: 3) Yang, Dali L., and Scott Kennedy; “Reform in China” (XXII: 2) Kamdar, Mira; "April in Paris" (XXII: 2...