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“Forgetting Is Not Justice”: Mexico Bares Its Secret Past
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (2): 61–72.
Published: 01 June 2003
... Secret Past
Kate Doyle
In the heart of Mexico City, there is an old Mora, head of the state intelligence service
panopticon prison. A guard tower once rose CISEN (Centro de Investigación y Seguridad
at its center, surrounded by cells. Like all Nacional)— the president announced...
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Chinese Students and Anti-Japanese Protests, Past and Present
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (2): 59–65.
Published: 01 June 2005
... will be published next year.
Chinese Students and Anti-Japanese Protests,
Past and Present
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
When Chinese students marched against made Tiananmen Square a household word
Japan in Beijing this April, their demon and a familiar sight on television news...
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Who (Really) Owns the Past?
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (1): 85–91.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Karl E. Meyer Copyright © 2006 World Policy Institute 2006 C#DA
Who (Really) Owns the Past?
The nub of what follows can be simply expressed. Who has true title to antiquities or art
treasures? Is it the country of origin? Or even a tribe? Does a good-faith purchase...
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A People without a History Won’t Fight: The Battle to Control Ukraine’s Past
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 42–46.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Ian Bateson From Kiev, journalist Ian Bateson explores how the political wing of the far-right Azov battalion uses historical artifacts and a selective interpretation of past greatness to justify its vision for Ukraine. Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 Ukraine Russia, history...
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Coda: Not Even Past
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 122.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Christopher Shay Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 The past always haunts the present, but most political science fails to acknowledge, let alone describe, the influence of history’s ghosts. Too much policy analysis focuses only on what we can see and measure, ignoring...
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The Tragedy of Line C: The World's Great Cities Have a Monumental Problem. by Building for the Future, Must They Erase the Past?
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World Policy Journal (2010) 27 (4): 49–58.
Published: 01 December 2010
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Triumph of the Till: The organic food movement’s Nazi past
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 83–87.
Published: 01 June 2018
... of history, particularly for those who believe that eating more naturally—less meat, more plants, less processed and high-input food, more organic and local food—will save us and our planet. The past cannot tell us how to eat or farm today. It cannot adjudicate what is natural or artificial, provide...
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Humanitarian Intervention: Getting Past the Reefs
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (2): 21–30.
Published: 01 June 2001
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Getting Past the Reefs
Shashi Tharoor and Sam Daws
The subject of humanitarian intervention mitted to the rule of law in world affairs.
has come into vogue in recent years, follow One upholds a notion of the rule of law
ing a remarkable series of speeches made in based on the rights...
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The Big Question: Greatest Thing Since… What Is the Most Significant Invention of the Past Decade, and What Do You Anticipate for the Future?
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 3–7.
Published: 01 September 2011
... one. The most important innovation of the past decade is the outline for universal artificial intelligence that can indeed learn to solve arbitrary problems through the creative use of continually growing, but always limited, experience. After many millennia of more or less constant world...
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The Overestimation of American Power: Sobering Lessons from the Past
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (2): 85–99.
Published: 01 June 2006
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A Disdain for the Past: Jorg Haider’s Austria
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (1): 71–78.
Published: 01 March 2000
...Jacob Heilbrunn Copyright © 2000 World Policy Institute 2000 Jacob Heilbrunn is a w riter in Washington, D .C .
A Disdain for the Past
Jorg Haider’s Austria
Jacob Heilbrunn
Jorg Haider, the governor of Carinthia, and But this time, it didn’t happen...
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A Benediction on the Past: Woodrow Wilson’s War Address
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (2): 77–93.
Published: 01 June 2000
...Robert W. Tucker Copyright © 2000 World Policy Institute 2000 R E C #N SID E R A T I*N S
R obert W . T u ck er is p rofessor em eritus a t T h e Jo h n s H o p k in s U n iversity.
A Benediction on the Past
Woodrow Wilson’s War Address
Robert W...
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The Paradox of the Double Triangle: Preempting the Next Crises in Taiwan and Cuba
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (1): 19–30.
Published: 01 March 2000
... that if Chinese leaders proved by Congress.
suddenly feel that their backs are against Third, Cuba is the only country in the
the wall, they will not recall these lessons region that is as dependent today as it was
from the past; nor will they be able to com 40 years ago on a single commodity (sugar...
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Contesting Peace: Why Japan Needs A Real Debate on Pacifism
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 12–20.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Eri Hotta Historian Eri Hotta shows how throughout Japan’s history, leaders have used a rhetoric of peace to justify aggression and imperialism. Peace is an apparition, Hotta argues, that needs to be challenged if the country is to come to terms with its wartime past and confront the virulent...
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When the Shooting Stops: How Transitional Justice Turns Knowledge Into Acknowledgment
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 32–38.
Published: 01 September 2016
... Robin Kirk argues that a formal reckoning with the past can help a nation like Colombia heal, especially when a balance between retribution and absolution is found. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 transitional justice Colombia peace truth and reconciliation Argentina Chile...
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The Currency of History: Money and the Idea of Progress
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 39–44.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Rebecca L. Spang The history of money is normally told as a series of material changes and technological improvements, but historian Rebecca L. Spang argues that this version of the past obscures the monetary inequality that exists today. Money is a social and political fact as much...
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“We have to Talk about it”: Why Brazil Must Confront the Crimes of its Military Period
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 96–100.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Fernanda Canofre When a society fails to confront the dark episodes of its history, it leaves its past vulnerable to distortion and exploitation, argues journalist Fernanda Canofre. Brazil has never properly investigated the crimes of its military dictatorship period (1964-1985), and far-right...
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Neither Truth nor Reconciliation: Why Indonesia’s Army Wants the Country to Forget its Darkest Year
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 102–109.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Natalie Sambhi Natalie Sambhi, a research fellow at the Perth USAsia Centre, examines the violence in Indonesia in 1965-66, when an estimated 500,000 people were murdered. The Indonesian army, which instigated the slaughter, continues to prevent the country from reckoning with its bloody past...
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Legalized Authoritarianism: How Egypt’s Lawmakers Codify Oppression
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 12–14.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Mai El-Sadany The Egyptian government has repeatedly violated the law with arbitrary arrests, torture in detention, and forced disappearances. But in the past, Egyptian legal expert Mai El-Sadany says, at least these measures could have been challenged in court. Today a person may be subjected...
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“Justice is Afraid of the Priest’s Robe”: Rape and power in Nicaragua
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 36–40.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Ian Bateson Lucia was 15 when she became pregnant. The news was a shock to her family: Lucia didn’t have a boyfriend and spent her time doing homework and singing in the church choir. But amid tears, the girl revealed to her mother that the local priest had been raping her for the past two years...
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