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...Karl E. Meyer Copyright © 2003 World Policy Institute 2003 C#DA Weighing Iraq on Morgenthau’s Scale A deceased German-born University of Chicago political theorist who is on everybody’s lips is Leo Strauss (1899-1973), mentor of Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz...

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Iraq's Oil Law: Parsing the Fine Print

Kamil Mahdi

World Policy Journal (2007) 24 (2): 11–23.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/wopj.2007.24.2.11

Published: 01 June 2007

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Thinking Like a Jihadist: Iraq’s Jordanian Connection

Nir Rosen

World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (1): 1–16.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07402775-2006-2008

Published: 01 March 2006

...Nir Rosen Copyright © 2006 World Policy Institute 2006 N ir Rosen, a freelance journalist, is the author of In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq (The Free Press, forthcoming). Thinking Like a Jihadist Iraq’s Jordanian Connection...

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Iranian Imbroglios Revisited

Nikki R. Keddie

World Policy Journal (2008) 25 (3): 37–40.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/wopj.2008.25.3.37

Published: 01 September 2008

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Map Room: Fear Thy Neighbor: Crime and Xenophobia in Europe

World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 36–37.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07402775-4191194

Published: 01 June 2017

... Europeans are increasingly afraid of refugees fleeing war and violence in Syria and Iraq. World Policy Journal compares data from eight European countries, and concludes there’s little connection between refugees, crime rates, and xenophobia. Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017...

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Prevention, Not Intervention: Curbing the New Nuclear Threat

William D. Hartung

World Policy Journal (2003) 19 (4): 1–11.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07402775-2003-1003

Published: 01 December 2003

... than provocative military opposed to the world that exists in the strikes. imaginings of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney, What About Iraq? overthrowing Saddam Hussein will have vir Arms control skeptics in the Bush admin tually no impact...

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The Follies of Democratic Imperialism

Omar G. Encarnación

World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (1): 47–60.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07402775-2005-2006

Published: 01 March 2005

...). The Follies of Democratic Imperialism Omar G. Encamación President George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq spread of democracy by force or other signaled the unambiguous return of “demo means.4 Her predecessor at the State Depart cratic imperialism” in American foreign pol ment, Colin Powell...

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The Perfect Debacle

Karl E. Meyer

World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (3): 101–103.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07402775-2004-4010

Published: 01 September 2004

... Freedom is mocked by the dismal daily toll within Iraq, by the ever-gathering threat of Islamic terrorism, and the emergence of Iran with its nuclear ambitions as the conflict’s unintended regional winner. Or, in the words of George F. Will, a respected voice on the right: “Who believes...

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The Media’s Independence Problem

Jonathan Mermin

World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (3): 67–71.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07402775-2004-4002

Published: 01 September 2004

... failed to prepare the public for terest to there having been “no official the calamitous occupation that has followed structure to the story. It was not an officially the “liberation” of Iraq, reveals just how far sanctioned story that begins with a handout the actual practice of American...

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Notes from the Underground: The Rise of Nouri Al-Maliki and the New Islamists

Ned Parker, Raheem Salman

World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 63–76.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0740277513482618

Published: 01 March 2013

...Ned Parker; Raheem Salman Ned Parker, a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times , reported from Baghdad for seven years and has contributed to World Policy Journal . Raheem Salman covered the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the post-Saddam era for the Los Angeles Times from 2003 to 2011...

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The Sack of Mesopotamia

Karl E. Meyer

World Policy Journal (2005) 21 (4): 91–93.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07402775-2005-1001

Published: 01 December 2005

... ended as rubble but for the brave deed of an unsung soldier who cut the hissing fuse. The soldier’s spirit is sorely needed in Iraq. Not only has an American-led occupation failed to protect the many museums and archaeological sites in Iraq, but the pace of looting has accelerated...

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The United Nations Rediscovered?

Brian Urquhart

World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (2): 1–5.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07402775-2004-3011

Published: 01 June 2004

... Urquhart Last year, the president of the United States will be an obvious target, notwithstanding declared the United Nations “irrelevant” to the Security Council’s creation of a special the future of Iraq, perhaps even to any ma military organization to provide security for jor problem...

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Killing One’s Progeny: America and the United Nations

Barbara Crossette

World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (3): 54–59.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07402775-2002-4004

Published: 01 September 2002

... Barbara Crossette As if we needed reminding, the debate over that the world organization—and worse, the how to tackle Iraq has illuminated again United States— might have to get more ac how Washington is at best ambivalent, at tively involved in stopping it. worst downright dismissive, about...

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