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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 49–55.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Kenneth E. Barden “Rising seas, drowning islands.” “Rising seas, drowning islands.” © World Policy Institute 2011 2011 World Policy Institute Bonriki, Kiribati—Approaching Bonriki airport for a landing, the triangular coral atoll of Tarawa looks very much like the sails...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 89–95.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Sarah El Sirgany Egypt handed over two uninhabited islands to Saudi Arabia, sparking the largest mass protests in Cairo since 2014. Both governments say they want to maintain close ties, according to journalist Sarah El Sirgany, but conflicting expectations, dissatisfied citizens, and domestic...
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Published: 01 June 2011
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Published: 01 March 2013
Fahad Ingkiang, age 2, was diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition by volunteer doctors on the strife-torn Philippine island of Mindanao. Fahad Ingkiang, age 2, was diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition by volunteer doctors on the strife-torn Philippine island of Mindanao. More
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 69–75.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Nanjala Nyabola Kenya’s plan to build a coal-burning power plant on the doorstep of an historic island has sparked some of the country’s most intense environmental organizing in years, reports journalist Nanjala Nyabola. Activists say the plan, part of Kenya’s foreign-policy pivot to China, would...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 55–60.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Tania Karas An EU-Turkey deal intended to stem the flow of migrants to Europe has turned Greece's islands into de facto open-air prisons. Meanwhile, right-wing sentiment is now growing in regions heralded just a year ago for their selfless care of refugees, reports journalist Tania Karas. Greece...
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Published: 01 December 2016
Lawyer Khaled Ali holds up historical documents, which he says proves the islands of Tiran and Sanafir are Egyptian, on June 22. SARAH EL SIRGANY Lawyer Khaled Ali holds up historical documents, which he says proves the islands of Tiran and Sanafir are Egyptian, on June 22. / SARAH EL SIRGANY More
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (3): 33–40.
Published: 01 September 2000
... toll on the beautiful and phy, but few have done so with less recogni­ poor island probably exceeded Hiroshima’s, tion. After 55 years of abuse by Washington although the conventional figure of 150,000 and Tokyo, it would have been good to see Okinawan deaths is an estimate because vir­...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 73–82.
Published: 01 March 2011
..., but that question is at the heart of a conflict that has poisoned life on this once idyllic island for more than half a century. The skull and the bones around it come from a mass grave uncovered in a mountainside just an hour's drive north of Chrysostomou's lab near Nicosia, the divided capital of Cyprus...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 30–34.
Published: 01 December 2017
... With their striking flora and fauna and consistently pleasant temperatures, it’s no wonder that the Caribbean islands are often described as paradise. Across the region, ecosystems ranging from high-elevation cloud forests to cactus scrublands boast an incredible array of plants and animals. The Caribbean is also...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (1): 19–30.
Published: 01 March 2000
... each other as full-fledged came closer to trading blows with China sovereign states. Predictably, Beijing re­ than it had since the Korean War and with acted by warning the islanders “not to un­ Cuba since the Missile Crisis. Although both derestimate the Chinese government’s firm crises blew...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 24–32.
Published: 01 March 2013
... that the best Abkhazia could hope for is one or two more small states recognizing its sovereignty. Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, lies Vanuatu. The Pacific island nation, with a population of 250,000, has been struggling economically since its independence from French and British rule in 1980...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 35–38.
Published: 01 December 2016
... voice. We’ve built a lot of alliances with other island states. We share similar experiences, successes, and failures and try to learn from each other very quickly. For example, we’ve learned from some of the islands in terms of the coral farms. Corals are bleached very easily, and of course whenever we...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 50–61.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Fahad Ingkiang, age 2, was diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition by volunteer doctors on the strife-torn Philippine island of Mindanao. Fahad Ingkiang, age 2, was diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition by volunteer doctors on the strife-torn Philippine island of Mindanao. ...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 18–27.
Published: 01 June 2015
... incident, in mid-June, Robert and I were standing on the northern edge of Barter Island. In front of us was Barnard Harbor that extends to a barrier island, which meets the Beaufort Sea. On the south was the coastal plain of the Arctic NWR. A short distance away a mid-sized polar bear was approaching...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 23–29.
Published: 01 March 2016
... lectures about the history of racism in Cuba, the island’s cultural connections to Africa, and potential solutions moving forward. Revolutionary leaders have responded to these denouncements and the growing black activist sentiment in a variety of ways. For example, the Cuban Rap Agency is a state...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (1): 43–52.
Published: 01 March 2015
... that no one would ever (manage to) question. These are the great unknowns of the future in the hidden worlds of subterranean finance—the first real major challengers to the remote offshore islands in the Caribbean and South Pacific that have for so long been the principal stereotypes of tax havens...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (1): 22–31.
Published: 01 March 2004
.... a presence in the other’s capital through “In­ The Soviet pullout led Cuba in 1994 to terest Sections” established in 1977 by Pres­ adopt a long-debated law to open the island ident Jimmy Carter. With minor exceptions, to foreign investment. There followed a Americans are prohibited from investing...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 101–108.
Published: 01 September 2012
... with its Great Barrier Reef Park, followed by large MPAs in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and Phoenix Islands in the Pacific. The Chagos Archipelago in the British Indian Ocean Territory is currently the largest MPA at 210,000 square miles, and the United States’ Mariana Trench, just to the east...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (1): 85–90.
Published: 01 March 2004
... solution in­ to patch up relations between Athens and volving the peaceful reunification of the Ankara, as well as between Athens and divided island, acceptable to both of its eth­ Washington. nic groups, before the larger, Greek part Without ever “going to Canossa...