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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 94–105.
Published: 01 June 2018
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 1–5.
Published: 01 September 2016
... The world’s problems are rarely new. There are always precedents that should inform today’s most crucial decisions. World Policy Journal asked five experts from the United Kingdom, Burundi, Chile, Turkey, and Venezuela what lessons from history keep being forgotten. Copyright © 2016 World Policy...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 30–31.
Published: 01 September 2016
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 42–46.
Published: 01 March 2017
... to connect Ukraine’s present—one party’s view of it in particular—to the pomp of the past. Sviatoslav’s seal is about history as performance. It’s a way to justify a desired direction for the country with a carefully chosen interpretation of ancient greatness. When the men in the theater cheer the seal...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 39–44.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Rebecca L. Spang The history of money is normally told as a series of material changes and technological improvements, but historian Rebecca L. Spang argues that this version of the past obscures the monetary inequality that exists today. Money is a social and political fact as much...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 52–53.
Published: 01 September 2016
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (2): 45–50.
Published: 01 June 2006
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (2): 85–99.
Published: 01 June 2006
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World Policy Journal (2007) 24 (2): 34–38.
Published: 01 June 2007
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 22–28.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., a brutal conqueror, removes the Oromo and other marginalized ethnic groups from the national record. This is significant for those left out of history are more easily disregarded in the present. Due to the sheer weight of demography, Tigrean-dominated Ethiopia is untenable. Change is inevitable...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 45–50.
Published: 01 September 2016
... 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 India nationalism history Sanskrit YANN YANN NEW DELHI—If you look out your plane window during landing or take off at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, the view of the nearby Jawaharlal Nehru University campus can be startling...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 12–20.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Eri Hotta Historian Eri Hotta shows how throughout Japan’s history, leaders have used a rhetoric of peace to justify aggression and imperialism. Peace is an apparition, Hotta argues, that needs to be challenged if the country is to come to terms with its wartime past and confront the virulent...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 6–11.
Published: 01 September 2016
... for the Communist Party as the country’s economy slows. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 China Tiananmen Square freedom of speech history nationalism memory LAW OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA LAW OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA Miao Deshun is a living ghost, a revenant...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 65–71.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Viet Thanh Nguyen World Policy Journal speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen, who criticizes an “industry of memory” that creates and bolsters a single version of history. Hollywood, the Vietnamese-American author says, is a “very powerful propaganda ministry” that seduces...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 113–121.
Published: 01 September 2016
.... Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 Syria Iraq history Arab states sovereignty citizenship CHAOYUE PAN CHAOYUE PAN BEIRUT—Watching television news from the Middle East these days has become a repetitive catalogue of suicide bombings, terror attacks, civil wars, foreign...
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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 (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): 59–65.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Sen. Leila de Lima Prison walls cannot prevent Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s fiercest foe from speaking out. From her cell, Sen. Leila de Lima calls the 71-year-old ruler a “geriatric dictator wannabe” involved in “mass serialized murder” and says history will vindicate her. Copyright ©...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 8–14.
Published: 01 September 2017
... and subsidizing DNA testing that could hold the men responsible for financial support. Nara Milanich, an associate professor of history at Barnard College, describes how these policies have been shaped not by the wishes of low-income mothers but by the political agendas of neoliberal states. Costa Rica’s law...
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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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