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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 30–34.
Published: 01 December 2017
... With their striking flora and fauna and consistently pleasant temperatures, it’s no wonder that the Caribbean islands are often described as paradise. Across the region, ecosystems ranging from high-elevation cloud forests to cactus scrublands boast an incredible array of plants and animals. The Caribbean is also...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (2): 21–25.
Published: 01 June 2000
...Strobe Talbott Strobe Talbott is Deputy Secretary of State.
The Crisis in Africa
Local War and Regional Peace
Strobe Talbott
A decade of unprecedented global peace pends on strengthening such organizations
has also seen local and regional conflict...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (1): 31–40.
Published: 01 March 2003
...Barnett R. Rubin; Andrea Armstrong Copyright © 2003 World Policy Institute 2003 Bam ett R. Rubin is director of studies and a senior fellow and Andrea Armstrong is a research associate a t the Center on
International Cooperation a t New York University.
Regional Issues...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (2): 23–36.
Published: 01 June 2005
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The Dragon and the Tigers
China and Asian Regionalism
Hugh De Santis
Among the many costs of the Bush adminis The evolution of China’s relationship
tration’s obsession with the “war on terror” with a s e a n and with its other neighbors in
is the diversion of policymaking...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 19 (4): 23–36.
Published: 01 December 2003
...). This
article is based on a year-long investigation that has taken him to Russia, China, Japan, and the two Koreas.
Gas and Geopolitics in Northeast Asia
Pipelines, Regional Stability, and the Korean Nuclear Crisis
Selig S. Harrison
The enormous potential of East...
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World Policy Journal (2008) 25 (2): 29–37.
Published: 01 June 2008
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Published: 01 March 2013
Apart from armed conflict, central Mindanao has been plagued with massive flooding from torrential rains—the product of fast-changing weather conditions, further complicating the ability of mothers to receive health care in restive regions. Apart from armed conflict, central Mindanao has been
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 8–14.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Nara Milanich Latin America has long been known for its low marriage rates and high rates of children born outside of marriage. Beginning in 2000, politicians across the region began promoting “responsible paternity,” sponsoring legislation to help women track down their children’s fathers...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 14–18.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Owen Hatherley The Northern Powerhouse is an ambitious-sounding plan to revitalize the north of England and create a unified region to rival London. Architectural critic and author Owen Hatherley, however, contends that the Conservative Party’s development strategy mistakenly treats the north...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 55–60.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Tania Karas An EU-Turkey deal intended to stem the flow of migrants to Europe has turned Greece's islands into de facto open-air prisons. Meanwhile, right-wing sentiment is now growing in regions heralded just a year ago for their selfless care of refugees, reports journalist Tania Karas. Greece...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 113–119.
Published: 01 June 2015
... Africa and a trade route between the economies of West and Central Africa. The region’s only deepwater port, Douala, plays a decisive role in its economy. Thanks to the infrastructure created since German colonization and the road and rail networks that radiate toward its hinterlands, Cameroon controls...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 51–59.
Published: 01 March 2002
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southern Caucasus. His In Denikin’s Russia could Georgia, Armenia, or Azerbaijan be
and the Caucasus, 1919-1920 is a classic and called strong states: currently their com
terrifying account of a region imploding. bined population is about 15 million peo
The White armies’ resistance...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 3–8.
Published: 01 December 2015
... to reposition themselves. World Policy Journal consulted a panel of experts to help understand what issues are defining countries’ changing roles in the region. The most pressing problem Latin America faces today is narcotrafficking. As Pope Francis mentioned in his U.N. speech in September...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (3): 53–60.
Published: 01 September 2001
... — have seen their democratic experiments
degenerate into increasingly authoritarian
Both Rustow and Huntington failed to regimes.
predict the wave of liberalizations that over Why has the Arab world been so resist
took the world— and the region...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 8–11.
Published: 01 June 2014
... where financial developments in one region can have an impact on a vastly different and geographically disparate location. The forces joining them are those of money, wealth, and finance, which are deeply interlinked, or so we tend to think. But the world around us has always been globalized, albeit...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 113–121.
Published: 01 September 2016
... as the battleground for perhaps the greatest combination of local, regional, and global proxy wars to come together in the modern era. We should worry about terrorism and the refugee populations created from these conflicts, especially because Syria and Iraq may be just the tip of the iceberg of the distortions...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 17–22.
Published: 01 December 2015
... for showcasing the new Latin America. At least that was the intention of Peru, probably the region’s most successful economy, whose government spared no expense receiving the more than 12,000 delegates, which included finance ministers and central bankers from 188 countries. Tracking International Justice...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 21 (4): 19–28.
Published: 01 December 2005
... the region’s largest
well as the Dominican Republic) to that of trading partner and most significant source
the United States. Over a period of 15-20 of foreign investment. In 2002, the United
years, CAFTA will reduce barriers to invest States was the destination for 57 percent of
ment, open state...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (3): 39–42.
Published: 01 September 2013
.... It is a path worth international support. Evolutionary and consensual change, moderation, pluralism, and respect for others—these are the drivers of progress and security, within as well as between countries, and they are Jordan’s values. As regional events play out, we will continue to pursue our reform...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (2): 70–79.
Published: 01 June 2013
... to national security. Next, the Russian Constitutional Court ruled against sovereignty declarations by any of the republics. A further change decreed that the president of Tatarstan, and any other regional ruler, must be appointed and removed with Moscow’s approval. Authorities reacted to July’s...
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