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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2000
...Fritz Stern Copyright © 2000 World Policy Institute 2000 F ritz Stem is University Professor Emeritus a t Columbia University. H is most recent book is Einstein’s German World.
The Importance of “Why”
F ritz Stem
What follows is an abridged version of the accep...
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World Policy Journal (2007) 24 (3): 75–82.
Published: 01 September 2007
.... Thus, it was he who persuaded Carter that it was possible to bring peace to the Middle East and to expend an immense amount of energy in successfully reconciling Israel and Egypt. He saw more clearly than most the importance of the United Nations and encouraged Andrew Young in his remarkably creative...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 16–22.
Published: 01 June 2017
... crimes, and crimes against humanity still stand, Kim Thuy Seelinger , the director of the Sexual Violence Program at the Human Rights Center at University of California, Berkeley, writes that Zidane’s case raises an important question: How can courts balance survivors’ readiness to disclose...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 69–75.
Published: 01 September 2017
... devastate marine life and the economy of one of the East African nation’s most important tourist destinations. In response to their legal appeals, a judge granted a stay on the project, but its future remains unclear. Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 climate Kenya coal environment...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 35–38.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Ameenah Gurib-Fakim World Policy Journal speaks with Dr. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, a biochemist who became the first female president of Mauritius. She discusses the importance of integrating science into politics, what prevents women from rising into positions of power, and how her country pulled off...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 100–112.
Published: 01 June 2014
.... The same could be said for its future. • Japan could develop greater energy coalitions with other major energy importers. It could work with the United States to import shale gas in the form of LNG—provided Western Europe doesn’t get first call on these reserves to ease politico-economic pressure from...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (3): 3–8.
Published: 01 September 2015
... brought changes in cattle production, so the once famous grass-fed Argentine beef is increasingly fattened in feedlots. Agricultural intensification has also gone hand in hand with economic concentration, and transnational corporations (which sell imports and control exports) wield disproportionate power...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 90–99.
Published: 01 September 2012
... Hemisphere, a gang of burly, masked construction workers took over Cerro Dragón, an oil and gas field 15 times the size of Buenos Aires and Argentina’s most important source of hydrocarbons. Some 500 members of a union nicknamed the Dragons wrecked offices, spray-painted seditious messages on buildings...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (2): 47–52.
Published: 01 June 2004
... main in
The peddler didn’t answer. Accepting gredient—is Ghana’s largest cash crop.
defeat, he glared at my wife and stalked off, Food imports, while helping consumers,
holding a few chickens by the neck in each hurt food producers. Domestic producers
hand. are less...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 97.
Published: 01 September 2012
.... Argentina’s tough import restrictions, designed to help the central bank maintain a stable exchange rate by controlling the amount of foreign currency in circulation, require companies to send out as much as they bring in. Since her re-election in October, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has forced...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 34–41.
Published: 01 December 2011
... on reproductive rights and sexuality. These and other nongovernmental organizations are increasingly weighing in on social agendas and filling important gaps in sex education and family planning services. With a population of 5.6 million, and a per capita income of barely $1,200 a year, Nicaragua...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 17–21.
Published: 01 September 2011
... but compete internationally against the same multinationals that supplied them with the knowledge and skills in the first place. “Bad” policies are strategies like import substitution industrialization that a country believes will help it, but in fact do more harm than good to the country’s economy...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 3–6.
Published: 01 December 2011
... in the world, but perhaps none so immediately important—to believers and non-believers alike—than its ability to promote peace and understanding, or to undermine it. We have asked our panel of global experts to weigh in on this aspect of faith in the modern world. Photo: SBA73 For many, religion...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (4): 13–21.
Published: 01 December 2013
... and Chinese railway parts. Yet October 28 was no ordinary Monday. It was just three days after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wrapped up a rare state visit to Beijing that received little of the coverage it deserved. Important talks on trade and border negotiation were largely ignored by the mass media...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (3): 75–85.
Published: 01 September 2014
... the competition on value systems and contribute to a better and safer world. A comprehensive analysis of the Western model and its impact on the daily life of our citizens might suggest some important answers. Americans and Europeans are fully committed to human dignity, civil liberties, rule of law...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 21 (4): 19–28.
Published: 01 December 2005
...-owned monopolies to for Central America’s exports and provided 41
eign competition, eliminate most agricul percent of its imports. However, while U.S.
tural tariffs, and deepen economic harmo exports to the region expanded by a healthy
nization within the region. It is a milestone 10...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 86–93.
Published: 01 December 2012
...; the latter include bigger machine guns, portable missile systems, and grenade launchers. The United States and many other countries have relatively strict (but far from watertight) import and export regulations on all of them, but there is no comprehensive global system for keeping them from being...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (2): 37–43.
Published: 01 June 2005
... between Foreign Minister Jaswant tary cooperation.
Singh and Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Other structural constraints also place
Talbott, that any resumption of meaningful important limits on Indo-U.S. security co
defense ties could again be discussed. Strate operation. India, despite its...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 31–38.
Published: 01 June 2014
... enterprise owner, stronger means cheaper imports, while weaker means more expensive imports—a lesson easily learned. They may know little about the deliberations of the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan, or even the People’s Bank of China (nor do they really care), but they know when costs are falling...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (2): 45–49.
Published: 01 June 2005
... of
in leading Indian companies, including Britain, France, Germany, and Italy. India is
Bharti Telecom. also projected to sustain its spectacular an
At the same time, several important fac nual rate of growth of 5 percent or better
tors could divert the wave of capital heading...
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