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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 35–38.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Ameenah Gurib-Fakim World Policy Journal speaks with Dr. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, a biochemist who became the first female president of Mauritius. She discusses the importance of integrating science into politics, what prevents women from rising into positions of power, and how her country pulled off...
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Published: 01 December 2016
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World Policy Journal (2008) 25 (4): 1–2.
Published: 01 December 2008
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 16–22.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Kim Thuy Seelinger Khadidja Hassan Zidane told a stunned Senegalese courtroom that Chad’s former president, Hissène Habré had raped her on four separate occasions. But judges ruled Zidane’s testimony came too late, and Habré was acquitted of this charge. While Habré’s convictions for torture, war...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (2): 48–55.
Published: 01 June 2000
...Jacob Heilbrunn Ja c o b H eilb ru n n is a colum nist f o r the Süddeutsche Zeitung a n d h a s w ritten f o r the National Interest, the Times Literary Supplement, a n d the W all Street Journal. President Gore’s Foreign Policy Jacob Heilbrunn Two myths...
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Published: 01 June 2013
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso Photo: Jock Fistick European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso . / Photo: Jock Fistick More
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (4): 111–120.
Published: 01 December 2013
...David A. Andelman A president, no matter how narrowly victorious in a free and fair election, arrives in office with a substantial reservoir of good will. Let’s use the analogy of a large barrel, filled to the brim with fresh water that represents power, reach, and influence. It is accompanied...
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Published: 01 September 2012
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Published: 01 September 2016
LUIS RUIZ TITO/PRESIDENCIA REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA LUIS RUIZ TITO/PRESIDENCIA REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA More
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World Policy Journal (2007) 24 (3): 75–82.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Jonathan Power Zbigniew Brzezinski remains at 79 the same feisty, acerbic intellectual he has always been, giving little quarter to his opponents. Admired rather than loved, he was, as President Jimmy Carter's national security advisor, the antithesis of the careful, more rounded, secretary...
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World Policy Journal (2007) 24 (3): 83–88.
Published: 01 September 2007
... in the countryside. We talked as we did 30 years ago, at great length, over vodka, coffee, cucumber, and beetroot. The advisor to every Soviet president from Leonid Brezhnev to Mikhail Gorbachev remains as lucid as he was when he told me in November, 1978, that if the West pursued its relationship of growing closer...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 59–65.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Sen. Leila de Lima Prison walls cannot prevent Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s fiercest foe from speaking out. From her cell, Sen. Leila de Lima calls the 71-year-old ruler a “geriatric dictator wannabe” involved in “mass serialized murder” and says history will vindicate her. Copyright ©...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 83–86.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Karen J. Greenberg President Donald Trump’s Hobbesian worldview is pushing U.S. national security policies to harsher, meaner places, according to Fordham University’s Karen J. Greenberg . Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 Donald Trump national security SHEALAH CRAIGHEAD...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 115–121.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Josh Freedman President Xi Jinping has staked his reputation on an ambitious goal: eliminating absolute poverty in China by 2020. Josh Freedman compares two nearby towns in rural Hunan province to reveal the limitations of China’s poverty alleviation campaign. IT IS A DILEMMA OF GOVERNANCE...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 36–40.
Published: 01 September 2017
.... Journalist Ian Bateson reports on how Nicaragua’s total ban on abortions, backed by President Daniel Ortega, has left girls like Lucia without options, and how a handful of women’s rights groups are fighting back. Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 Nicaragua rape Church abortion...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 83–89.
Published: 01 September 2017
...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...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 32–38.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Robin Kirk When the president of Colombia shook hands with the leader of FARC, the longest-running conflict in the Western Hemisphere was over, but ensuring peace after the official end of the fighting is never straightforward. Using examples from Northern Ireland, Argentina, and Chile, author...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 55–59.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Masha Gessen Having spent over two decades analyzing Russia's slide into dictatorship, journalist Masha Gessen is now terrified of the damage President Donald Trump could do to democracy in the U.S. World Policy Journal spoke with Gessen about Putin, the media, and what citizens can do to protect...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 73–79.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Manal Omar Manal Omar, author and a vice president at the U.S. Institute for Peace, argues that to successfully counter violent extremism (CVE), practitioners need to address concerns that CVE strategies are designed only to serve Western interests. Thus, CVE programming should commit...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 82–91.
Published: 01 March 2017
... female head of Petrobras and the first female admiral. During her tenure, a woman became chief justice of the Federal Supreme Court. And she always proudly referred to herself as “A Presidenta” rather than the gender-neutral “Presidente.” BRAZILIANS TEND TO REACT TO A POTENTIAL BOLSONARO PRESIDENCY...
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