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India and China: Debating Modernity
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (2): 62–70.
Published: 01 June 2006
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Nicaragua between Caudillismo and Modernity the Sandinistas Redux?
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (2): 76–84.
Published: 01 June 2006
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Dignity, Not Deadly Force: Why Procedural Justice Matters for Modern Policing and Democracy
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 38–42.
Published: 01 June 2017
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The Near-Death of Democracy
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World Policy Journal (2008) 25 (4): 145–151.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Benjamin R. Barber Back in 1992, I argued that two seemingly antithetical developments—the globalization and centralization of the market economy under the aegis of the American consumer monolith (“McWorld”), and the fracturing and re-tribalizing of nation states in favor of anti-modern religious...
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Hindi, Hinglish: Head to Head
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (2): 97–103.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Ananya Vajpeyi A great deal of the tone of lamentation cast over the creation of modern Hindi and its effort to distance itself from its medieval forbearers—languages like Awadhi and Braj, as well as close relatives like Hindustani and Urdu—has come from India’s poets and novelists. Many deeply...
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The Return of Sanskrit: How an Old Language Got Caught up in India’s New Culture Wars
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 45–50.
Published: 01 September 2016
... the symbol. The two meanings of the swastika—one ancient, one modern; one good, the other evil; one Eastern, the other Western—encapsulate the contradictions within Sanskrit itself. Sanskrit is an old language rich with liturgy, scripture, philosophy, and literature, but its use has, for the most part...
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Three Faces of Fascism
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (3): 95–100.
Published: 01 September 2004
... destabilization.
larly of the liberal and conservative varieties, The backlash against the spread of capi
remained weak, leaving their natural mid talism, and modernity more generally, that
dle-class, peasant, and rural constituencies had been brewing across Europe around the
feeling that they lacked...
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The Lineaments of Islamic Democracy
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World Policy Journal (2002) 18 (4): 59–67.
Published: 01 December 2002
... of civilizations” seems suddenly pre both its citizenry and its neighbors. With
scient, as pundits and politicians loudly the collapse of the Soviet Union, pundits
wonder whether Islam is compatible with and policymakers touted fundamentalism—
modernity.1 Can an Islamic Middle East pro the Islamic...
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Legal Limits: Ending Human Trafficking In Supply Chains
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 119–123.
Published: 01 March 2017
... argues that transparency laws must also be accompanied by efforts to promote social inclusion and economic development. Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 labor trafficking modern-day slavery supply chains Mat Isa holds a fishing net given to him as part of Cambodia’s...
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Olympian Dreams
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (2): 9–15.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., the question is: Why? There are those who cannot understand, may even distrust, competitiveness in adults. Others question the resources—time, energy, and, above all, money—dedicated to modern sports, particularly the great set-piece events like the Olympics or the soccer World Cup. For sport agnostics...
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Arab Democracy: Dismal Prospects
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (3): 53–60.
Published: 01 September 2001
... of a country from the school leavers for jobs in the modern econo
Arab-Israeli and Persian Gulf arenas. The my. For many of these regimes, to be sure,
Columbia sociologist Charles Tilly once ob the failure to promote modern education
served that a “protected place in time and was not entirely...
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Bush’s Choice: Athens or Sparta
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (2): 1–9.
Published: 01 June 2001
..., techno ing attitudes of a modern Sparta. America as
logical, political, and cultural predomi Athens would be extrovert and open, encour
nance that America achieved in the 1990s. aging the growth of democracies and trad
France’s foreign minister, Hubert Vedrine, ing partners. America as Sparta...
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“I Won’t Be Silenced”: A Conversation with Incarcerated Philippine Senator Leila de Lima
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 59–65.
Published: 01 June 2017
... as the dregs of society and enemies of the state. This is the break-down of modern democracy in the Philippines and of a legal system that values individual human rights. Imagine living in this society, where once the government and its death squads target you, you can be killed at any time. Imagine what...
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Breakthroughs in Faith
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 7–13.
Published: 01 December 2011
... Spring, both sides of this debate were baffled. Arab youths called for democracy without bothering to answer the obsessive question asked by the West—is Islam compatible with democracy (or secularism, or human rights, or women’s rights, or even modernity)? In reality, there is no “return...
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The Citizen and the State: The Decline of Sovereignty in the Arab World
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 113–121.
Published: 01 September 2016
.... We have a sovereignty and security problem in the Arab region, and it derives from our own inability to transition to pluralistic democracies that reflect the values and interests of our own people, who, a century after their encounter with modern statehood, remain citizens estranged from...
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The Big Question: What Does Your Country Need to Stay Viable
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 3–8.
Published: 01 December 2014
... climate has given birth to modern digital innovations and design through such companies as IKEA, H&M, Spotify, Skype, and Mojang/Minecraft. Sweden needs to realign with its core beliefs—a nation built on humanity, solidarity, and environmental awareness. Sweden has survived the recession...
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Dreaming in Turkish
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (3): 69–80.
Published: 01 September 2001
... was founded
ing to free itself from its fears— fear of in 1923, an insecurity that today prevents
freedom, fear of the outside world, fear of Turkey from taking its proper place in the
itself. modern world.
But the real reason I love to hear the No nation...
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Sex and the Barrio: A Clash of Faith in Latin America
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 34–41.
Published: 01 December 2011
..., which has led some modern Catholics to embrace a more liberal interpretation of their religion. Groups like the Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir ( cdd ), an offshoot of the North American nonprofit Catholics for Choice, offer an alternative that reconciles their faith with contemporary thinking...
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Culture, Globalization, and U.s. Foreign Policy
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (3): 77–82.
Published: 01 September 2002
... benighted Pakistanis to their rightful
nomically, to modernize, and to prosper, place in the modern world? After all, at the
there is no practical alternative to capitalism end of the day, the people of Pakistan are
(understood implicitly to mean American- (Washington assumes) basically no different...
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Land’s End: Can an Island Nation Survive Without Its Islands?
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 49–55.
Published: 01 June 2011
... of public employees requires a tax and revenue base that is not sustainable. The lagoon, which has been a central part of Tarawa life, is suffering as well. Prior to the advent of modern transportation, water in the lagoon mixed with circulating ocean water as the tides ebbed and flowed. The arrival...
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