... of us lucky enough to live in democracies must not forget that Internet freedom starts at home. If we cannot figure out how to constrain government and corporate power over digital networks people depend on, prepare to join our Ethiopian friends in Zone 9. • ...

... against the strictures of their drab domestic life and join in the jihadi struggle. Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 Islamic State Taliban women gender family terror SENIOR AIRMAN ASHLEY AVECILLA The first issue of Sunnat-e-Khaula , the flagship women’s magazine of...

...Saliha Ben Ali Journalist Lisa De Bode interviews Saliha Ben Ali, whose son left the family’s home in Belgium four years ago to join a terrorist group in Syria. He was killed a few months later. Since his death, Ben Ali has become an outspoken advocate for parents who fear losing their children to...

... Twitter accounts. HOW MUCH DO THEY TWEET? TWITTER FOLLOWERS DONALD J. TRUMP I @realDonaldTrump I U.S. President JOINED...

... Arabian Peninsula. It seems fitting that this, my last issue as editor of World Policy Journal , would have the theme “Constructing Family.” WPJ and its parent organization, the World Policy Institute, have been like family to me since 2011, when I joined as managing editor. In my new job, as a...

... in the Spring issue of World Policy Journal . We begin with Big Question, a selection of thinkers from every continent reflecting on their country’s biggest fear for the future. The brilliant science fiction writer Neal Stephenson joins us in our Chat Room to discuss what he sees as the...

... Times and World Policy Journal contributor, joins Reuters’ Raheem Salman to provide a groundbreaking profile of Iraq’s prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki—and the potentially malevolent prototype he represents for post-Arab Spring Islamist leaders. In a special roundtable, award-winning author and...

... invite readers to join us in rising to the challenges that these issues present to the world. For our Portfolio, we turn to Chechnya where the extraordinary Armenian photographer Diana Markosian has chronicled the resurgence of Islam in this violent corner of the Caucasus, while writer Judith Matloff...

..., network building, programs, and events—not the least being our main anniversary celebration, World Policy Around the Table, on May 3, 2012. We invite readers to join us in rising to the challenges that these issues present to the world. To learn more about the World Policy Institute’s 50th...

... number of applicants are immi­ ruption. Adrian López Rivera enrolled in a po­ grants from other Mexican states who are in lice academy and after graduation joined a muni­ search of a better life or have legal problems cipal police force. To his colleagues, he seemed to that lead them to leave their...

... consen­ the Hitler Youth in 1929 at the age of 15. sus about the consensus? Suddenly, the Given that the Nazis were not yet a major once-marginal and marginalized Freedom force in Austria, his eagerness to join is Party began to look like a sensible choice. striking. This was a true believer...

... ancient epic, the Mahabharata. The story’s hero, Arjuna, joins a “third gender” tribe while serving on the King’s court. The Koovagam festival attributes its significance to a story in the Mahabharata . Lord Aravan agrees to sacrifice himself to end a devastating war between the Pandavas and...

... at the Goethe Institute in Istanbul, mark the beginning of an odyssey that will, she hopes, take her from her hometown of Ören—a tranquil village of 1,500 in Turkey’s western Anatolia—to Germany, where she plans to join her new husband, Ilhan, in the Rhineland city of Düsseldorf. Koyun has a lot...

... leaders, he believed that tled on a thesis that contrasted France’s ad­ the European war and Nazism threatened ministration of two African territories: Da­ African Americans as well other Americans. homey, then an outright French possession, He thus accepted an offer to join the Office and...

..., the protests were not that much. But when the military side is mixed in, that is difficult to control. During my sister’s term, the military did not cooperate during the protests. We spotted many military officials joining the protests or protecting them. You had military teams protecting some key...

... the idea, fearing it would taint their image as a center-left party. In France, Benoît Hamon spread the word about what he saw in Portugal and called on his country’s divided left to join forces against upstart center-right presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron. This also fell short. Hamon was...

... sole threat to Estonian sovereignty, and noted that any future war would take place not on the ground, but digitally. (Nevertheless, since joining NATO, Estonia has hosted tens of thousands of alliance troops, which continue to patrol the EU’s border with Russia.) The report stated, “2017 showed that...

..., as it must answer difficult questions of transitional justice. How will former guerrillas be treated by the judicial system? How will they be reincorporated into mainstream society? And what will keep them from joining organized crime cartels, as so many other demobilized combatants have done...

... struggled to forge a unifying national identity and join disparate Ukrainian-populated lands into a single polity with independence and sovereignty. On at least two occasions—in the mid-17th century and during World War I and the immediate aftermath—a fledgling Ukrainian state, which arose more from...

... Powell 1. The story appears, inter alia, in Nelson W. join forces with the Cheney-Rumsfeld “jun­ Polsby, ‘‘In Praise of Alexander M. Bickel,” Commen­ ta”? Even if he again disagrees with their tary, January 1976, p. 52. (new) recommendations to the president? 2. See the long article by...