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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 83–91.
Published: 01 March 2011
.... At the same time, the unique status and financial resources provided to Russia's secret services in the early 2000s by then-President Vladimir Putin makes them even more unpredictable than their predecessor, the KGB, which was a powerful organization, but came under the firm control of the political structure...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (3): 3–8.
Published: 01 September 2013
... governments should or must keep secret. All governments engage in furtive behavior and in the name of national security commit acts they prefer to conceal. It is often too easy to oversimplify the contrast between the “righteousness of openness” and the “evils of secrecy.” Not all confidential...
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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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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 35–37.
Published: 01 December 2014
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World Policy Journal (2006) 22 (4): 7–14.
Published: 01 December 2006
..., and the
about the phony issue of ‘secret’ politicians are embarrassed by their accusa
prisons housing terrorists who tions, in part—perhaps—because some of
killed 3,000 Americans. them may not be quite so free from com
plicity with American secret operations...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (3): 23–30.
Published: 01 September 2013
... updated its network to make it virtually identical to the Russian interception system—in all, bringing tens of millions of new individuals under potential surveillance by security services. Ten months later, at a second SCO summit, member states agreed on joint measures to be taken by their secret...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (1): 25–35.
Published: 01 March 2006
..., President George W. Bush signed
transferring terrorist suspects to countries a secret presidential finding that authorized
that violate international human rights the CIA to kill, capture, or detain members
norms. of al-Qaeda anywhere in the world. Despite...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 75.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... Committed to the study of the “world’s open secrets, unwritten rules, and hidden practices,” the project is the first of its kind to seriously investigate the informal ways in which people make things happen. GOUDUI AND YINGCHOU (CHINA): ways entrepreneurs form informal ties with state officials...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 77–81.
Published: 01 June 2016
... for citizens to access and influence the terms and conditions. The secretive valuation formula of diamonds produced in Botswana should also be made public to ensure that transfer-pricing manipulation doesn’t allow profits to escape the country untaxed. The internal financial structure of the BDP, including...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (1): 43–52.
Published: 01 March 2015
... by Wikileaks describes even more subtle screenings performed by undercover agents in foreign airports looking for signs of nervousness. Customs officers are trained to detect lies, inconsistencies, or unusual behavior. Still, it took years before UBS banker Bradly Birkenfeld’s secret for shiny teeth...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (3): 1–2.
Published: 01 September 2013
...—a selection of international experts reflecting on the central issue of what governments should keep secret. Then, we’ve asked Sir Richard Dearlove, one of Britain’s ace spies at Her Majesty’s Secret Service (MI6) and now master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, to weigh in on the role of secrecy in society...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (3): 102–110.
Published: 01 September 2015
... military equipment nor soldiers were sent to Ukraine to help Russian-backed separatists. Putin himself famously suggested that Russian uniforms could be easily bought in a store. This miscalculation quickly became evident during the conflict in Ukraine. The most closely guarded secret for the Kremlin...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 23–31.
Published: 01 June 2018
...) at reduced prices. They crowded out other economic actors and private sector competitors. The details of the army’s economic activities remain, as always, a state secret, but the institution’s good standing with el-Sissi has helped Egypt draw in more international investment, especially from wealthy Gulf...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 75–80.
Published: 01 March 2017
... herself while in the country, and Carmen couldn’t produce them. Instead of reuniting with Alexis, she was forced to return home. The arrangement suited everyone for a while, and Carmen even found time to date women in secret, striking up a long-term romance with Alexis, who worked for an insurance...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 17–23.
Published: 01 March 2014
... found that oxytocin, a hormone secreted during labor to control contractions, is responsible for women’s greater likelihood to work cooperatively in business settings. Men under stress tend to secrete high levels of testosterone and become aggressive. Women under stress secrete oxytocin...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (1): 113–115.
Published: 01 March 2001
... the film’s salutary value for those under 30 to whom terms
like fallout, civil defense, and brinkmanship reek of mothballs. The full context is expertly
documented in the well-titled “One Hell of a GambleThe Secret History of the Cuban Missile
Crisis (Norton, 1998) by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (2): 37–42.
Published: 01 June 2003
.... son for the opposition to the protocol may
In an effort to meet this challenge, b w c be that the United States is reluctant to
member states began negotiations in 1995 open its biodefense program— which in
on a supplementary agreement, or “proto cludes activities kept secret for years...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (2): 108–117.
Published: 01 June 2013
... and democrats alike is central to the mission of bureaucrats as the prime lubricant of the machinery of government. It’s no secret that the top members of each graduating class at France’s single most elite institution of higher education—the École Nationale d’Administration (ÉNA)—are given the exalted rank...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (2): 93–99.
Published: 01 June 2002
... right to nationalize a British oil streets. This was followed by counterdemon
giant that held exclusive rights to drilling strations promoted by the Central Intelli
and selling the country’s petroleum. As seen gence Agency (cia ) and Britain’s Secret In
by the incoming Eisenhower...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2003) 19 (4): 85–88.
Published: 01 December 2003
... secret service viewed radicals as “moral rats” whose depravity warranted illegal
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searches and arbitrary detention. He goes on:
The records of accusation and evidence for which the Department...
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