... legacy of the Olympics. And despite the many cooks spoiling the broth of its production, it owes its existence to only one man, for no other reason than that he thought the park needed a bit of zhushing up. That man was Boris Johnson. He may be a politician, but Johnson is a professional celebrity...

...Thea Johnson © World Policy Institute 2011 2011 World Policy Institute Quito—It is springtime in the capital of Ecuador, and that means everyone is celebrating Carnival , as are people all over Latin America. In the halls of the Fundación Colegio Americano—the American School...

...Thea Johnson Despite the many questions swirling around this transition, most with a stake in the process seem genuinely committed. Diego Zalamea is at the offices of the Attorney General of Ecuador to help the state prosecutor transition to a modernized system of case tracking. The office...

...Robbie Corey-Boulet After a backlash against gay rights in 2012, LGBT Liberians have begun to organize and be more public in their demands for equality. But two presidential races—last November’s election of Donald Trump and the selection of a successor to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf...

...Scott Kennedy Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China , Johnson Ian , New York : Pantheon , 2004 China’s Democratic Future: How It Will Happen and Where It Will Lead , Gilley Bruce , New York : Columbia University Press , 2004 Remaking the Chinese...

...: The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire , Ryn Claes G , New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers , 2003 The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic , Johnson Chalmers , New York : Metropolitan Books , 2004 Copyright © 2004 World Policy...

... served as a haven for vent an alliance that served the world and refugees from fascism owed something to the cause of freedom so well during the an historical accident. Our first president, Cold War decades. Alvin Johnson, happened to be the son of a We need to recall...

...), and Johnson & Johnson ($18.6 billion). The arguments used by pharmaceutical companies to justify this tax dodging are spurious. The true cost of developing drugs is intentionally opaque, but it’s clear that pharmaceutical companies rely on intangible assets such as patents, which are financed...

... of the economy,” President Johnson Sirleaf told The Wall Street Journal . “The creation of jobs and the revenue of possible oil finds will transform the economy through infrastructure development.” Nevertheless, Liberia is rich in natural resources, including timber, iron ore, gold and diamonds. Most...

... provinces. Was this fallout from Iraq? On Mending the Fence In fairness to the Bush team, the fraying of relations is hardly a new problem. In 1965, as the war in Vietnam escalated, Canadians questioned the wisdom of Rolling Thunder, Lyndon Johnson’s bombing campaign, fearing it might lead...

... language and culture 2009 I RTVE website I Language Policy, D. Johnson (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013) Compiled by Laurel Jarombek Designed by Meehyun Nam Thompson SPRING 2018 25 Copyright © 2018...

... of another innovation in Latin America—a new system of justice, substituting the adversarial for the inquisitorial, as Thea Johnson explains. Around the world, doctors, hospitals, ambulances, and their patients are under attack in ways inconceivable, as Jason Cohn and Françoise Duroch of Médecins Sans...

...) architectural projects of mop-topped former London mayor Boris Johnson, while from Zurich, Adam Jasper examines Swatch’s short-lived effort to eliminate time zones. In Egypt, Mona Abo-Issa joins the bandwagons of energetic fans following around the country’s retired war heroes, and Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani looks...

... Johnson, who spent two years teaching the privileged in Ecuador, provides a vivid description of Quito’s closed upper-crust society, which has managed to hang on to its perks and privileges for generations. Finally, development specialist Kenneth E. Barden, who last explored for us the role of shariah...

...” President came an iconic poster image worldwide. The Lyndon Johnson into a wider war in Indo­ “hero” the camera immortalized hoisting the china, Hoang Cam said. Among the provo­ flag was in fact a terrified soldier who had cations was the attack on the American de­ hung back from the real assault...

... that officials are the stuff of democratic politics: what we really need is a clearer definition of not pretty to behold, but not (necessarily) goals: what exactly is it we hope to achieve entirely unhealthy either. Who can forget (or avoid), and within what (reasonable) Truman vs. MacArthur, Johnson vs...

... WORLD POUCY JOURNAL • SPRING 2005 served presidents Abraham Lincoln and An­ oped a colonial outlook. The United States drew Johnson as secretary of state. But Se­ established no colonial department. It ward’s ambitious program got nowhere, ex­ trained no administrators to man the out­ cept...

...” made abundantly clear. Democrats ought to be able to take ad­ The next Democratic presidents, John F. vantage of two central realities: they are Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, were more in tune than Republicans with Ameri­ afraid of appearing weak— both to Commu­ ca’s major allies, and also...

... dismantling and even criminalizing African customary laws and practices. Based on the doctrine of discovery—established by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1823 case Johnson v M’Intosh and used by many colonial powers to justify their territorial claims—the British regime automatically took title to the lands...