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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (1): 71–78.
Published: 01 March 2006
... Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of Africa, and is currently a t work on a book about
the Iranian hostage-takers.
Bloggers vs. Mullahs: How the Internet Roils Iran
B ill Berkeley
We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs
N a srin A la v i...
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World Policy Journal (2010) 27 (3): 32–33.
Published: 01 September 2010
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (3): 41–48.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of the Internet in their lives? Andersdotter: In the United States, I believe the first-past-the-post system makes it more difficult to launch new political initiatives. In Europe, it’s quite easy to get into publically elected institutions. It’s a much more achievable goal. We have parties—Pirate Parties...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 75–82.
Published: 01 December 2015
... their wealth in jurisdictions that cannot, or will not, cooperate in hunting them down. We are all just coming to terms with the fundamental change in criminality that has come from the Internet and, in particular, access to that small part of it known as the Dark Net. The Internet has abolished most...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (3): 20–24.
Published: 01 September 2014
...: Abrinsky TORONTO—Edward Snowden’s June 2013 leak has shone unprecedented light on the dark underside of Internet connectivity. So far, however, Canada has remained a victim largely hidden in the shadows. Much of the debate over the National Security Agency (NSA) revelations has focused on U.S...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (3): 102–110.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Andrei Soldatov; Irina Borogan But the Internet represents a challenge beyond any of these efforts. It thrives on a type of technology that’s in sharp contrast to the systems the Kremlin is accustomed to controlling. It’s horizontal, lacks hierarchy, and is fast-developing. This is its strength...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (3): 12–17.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Rebecca Mackinnon Rebecca MacKinnon directs the Ranking Digital Rights project at the New America Foundation. Author of Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom , she is co-founder of Global Voices Online and a former CNN bureau chief and correspondent...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (3): 23–30.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Andrei Soldatov; Irina Borogan The World Wide Web must keep its first W. It is in the interest of all those trying to spread the ideas of democracy around the world. Today, global Internet platforms are rightly considered public services, and for the benefit of the public or its institutions...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 85–91.
Published: 01 June 2015
... the Internet space and take a leadership role in the global reach of social media. Indian entrepreneurs have made billions off the Internet, and the rise of Indian call centers dragged vast populations on the sub-continent into the 21st century. Tthat this technology has suddenly acquired a dark side...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (3): 20–24.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of International and Public Affairs. © World Policy Institute 2014 2014 World Policy Institute Photo: Thomas Galvez Chinese Internet company Baidu recently debuted Busca, a Portuguese version of its search engine localized for Brazilian users. Though, as China’s state news agency Xinhua...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (3): 3–8.
Published: 01 September 2014
... in their respective parts of the world. Chile is experiencing a social media frenzy. Nearly 95 percent of Chilean Internet users have an account on a social networking site, which they check several times a day. In the past few years, Facebook and YouTube have become two of the most visited sites, only...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (1): 49–58.
Published: 01 March 2003
.... Because Bei
1980s, China, according to Human Rights jing had not yet developed comprehensive
Watch, arrested hundreds of Buddhist policies on Internet censorship, many Chi
monks and instituted “patriotic education” nese could access the websites of foreign me
classes at monasteries. Beijing...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 41–46.
Published: 01 June 2018
... of Lenin’s call for the Russian Revolution—the Swiss watchmaking company Swatch proposed a radical solution to the inconvenience of time. It branded this effort “Swatch Internet Time.” Swatch Internet Time would, like its radical precursor, French Revolutionary Time, be decimal. However, rather than dividing...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (3): 34–40.
Published: 01 September 2014
... among the youth population, who believe that political participation does nothing more than sustain old and bloated institutions. To make matters worse, there are few politicians left to lead—all thanks to the Internet that young people have grown to embrace and engage. This appetite and capacity...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (1): 56–66.
Published: 01 March 2001
... face by New information technologies, includ
registering as a for-profit corporation, even ing the Internet and e-mail have greatly fa
though it operates as more of an independent cilitated the ability of overseas dissidents
policy institute. and international ngo s...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (3): 14–19.
Published: 01 September 2013
..., four, six, eight, or more motors driving propellers. the development of drone technology is taking a parallel course to the early development of the internet. Drones can deploy a wide variety of sensor systems from high-definition video and still cameras, to infrared and multispectral...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 108–113.
Published: 01 March 2018
... the Communist era, were to leap over generations of technology and embrace cellphones and debit cards, then digital IDs and internet-enabled services. After years of neglect under Soviet rule, the lack of infrastructure became an opportunity to start afresh: “We just skipped certain things . . . everyone...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 78–85.
Published: 01 March 2013
... Last year, the San Francisco-based author Dave Eggers published his book, A Hologram for the King , a vision of Saudi Arabia where the Western world of holograms and the Internet comes up against the hard realities of today’s Saudi Arabia. Eggers, whose novel was nominated for a National Book Award...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 3–7.
Published: 01 December 2012
... all over the world can learn about what they can do to assist the needy, poor, widows/widowers, and the physically challenged. Free and easy communication is thus possible between these viewers and the church in Africa through e-mail, telephone services, and the Internet. The role of technology...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (3): 1–2.
Published: 01 September 2014
...The Editors North of our border, writing from Toronto, Canadian Andrew Clement is appalled at how much of his nation’s Internet traffic passes through the United States and through the hands of our own NSA. In Cairo, Mahmoud Salem, the twitterverse activist and revolutionary opponent of Hosni...
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