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World Policy Journal (2007) 24 (3): 83–88.
Published: 01 September 2007
.... Edward Crankshaw, the distinguished Sovietologist, writing in the London Observer, described it as “the most interesting thing to come out of official Moscow since the fall of Khrushchev fourteen years ago.” It was the cover story in The Economist. This time, if less threatening, he seemed just...
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World Policy Journal (2008) 25 (3): 137–140.
Published: 01 September 2008
...William D. Hartung At first glance, the international arms trade seems to be one of those problems that will always be with us, like death and taxes. But just as life can be prolonged and tax rates can be reduced, the traffic in weapons can be reined in, given the political will to do so, as I...
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World Policy Journal (2008) 25 (3): 218–220.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Alan Wolfe My first contribution to World Policy Journal , “Crackpot Moralism, Neo-Realism, and U.S. Foreign Policy,” was published in spring 1986, and explored a seeming paradox in American political life. Figures whose disposition toward the world could only be described as conservative...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 62–63.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Elisabeth Zerofsky Journalist and translator Elisabeth Zerofsky introduces her deft translation of author Kamel Daoud’s essay on sex in the Muslim world. Daoud’s piece provoked a media frenzy when it was published in France earlier this year. Everyone, including the French prime minister, seemed...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 20–21.
Published: 01 March 2016
... In 2012, prior to the London Olympics, Prime Minister David Cameron said London was “probably the most diverse city in the world.” Unlike many other metropolitan areas, where nonwhite populations form stark rings around a city, London at first glance may not seem geographically divided...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 84–88.
Published: 01 December 2016
... vision of global order, the Iran-Russia relationship seems poised to shape the Middle East for years to come. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 Russia Iran Syria PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA When Russian fighter jets bound for Syria took off from Iran...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 22 (4): 1–6.
Published: 01 December 2006
... dangerous it
tion of presidential power and—despite his is that no one person seems able to steer it.
consistent protestations to the contrary— As elbows begin to fly heading toward
the possibility he may amend the Russian Russia’s 2008 presidential election, battle
constitution to extend his...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (1): 105–111.
Published: 01 March 2000
... demagogues as Ross of international legitimacy they believe the
Perot, Jesse Ventura, and Pat Buchanan— United Nations can confer. Conservatives,
just as there is still a small American left for the most part, seem determined to carry
that sees in events as various as the rise of on much as they did...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (2): 39–47.
Published: 01 June 2000
... cer The standard defense of President Reagan
tainty— something that, historically, rarely by those who served him against those who
distinguishes wars or political struggles, marveled at the man’s seeming oblivious
however much political and military elites ness to all sorts of detail in foreign...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (3): 47–48.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Mustapha Tlili Copyright © 2001 World Policy Institute 2001 C#UNTERP#INT
Arab Democracy: A Possible Dream?
There seems a universal consensus with respect to the Arab world: that it is essentially “un
democratic.” More alarming still, neither in political science studies...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (1): 114–116.
Published: 01 March 2004
...
aback. A fascist government? A new era of McCarthyism?
This seemed a bit much, even to one critical of the Bush administration’s foreign pol
icy. But it is emblematic of the response abroad to what David Hendrickson, in an essay in
this issue, calls the “deformities and extravagances...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (3): 25–32.
Published: 01 September 2000
... of the beginning of the NATO air campaign on
Europe.” March 24, 1999, there was something aston
Was it a slip of the tongue? It seems un ishing and dismaying about the magnitude
likely. Beyond racism, beyond self-interest, not just of the military operation but of the
beyond...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 21–30.
Published: 01 December 2014
... the club running. Many complaints about “foreigners” are becoming more vocal, preceded by an “I am not a racist, but…” Immigrants are believed to profit disproportionately from the welfare state, seem overwhelmingly present in crime statistics, and urgently need to adapt to Dutch cultural norms...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (2): 1–9.
Published: 01 June 2001
... in
Indeed, the Athens of the Peloponnesian today’s couch potato the true heir to those
wars was known for its high-handed ways Romans lulled into contentment by bread
toward allies, and Sparta’s eventual victory and circuses. A cultural wheel seemed to
hinged on its pragmatic readiness to cooper turn...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (3): 113–122.
Published: 01 September 2014
...David A. Andelman Current world leaders, however, seem to have little memory of the past. Putin and Obama, Germany’s Merkel, and France’s Hollande appear quite prepared to blunder blindly ahead, using today’s weapons with little of their precedessors’ understanding of the potentially horrific...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 19 (4): 13–22.
Published: 01 December 2003
..., for erners are reluctant to think of Russia as a
their part, have seemed at times either con democracy, and certainly as anything like a
fused by Russia’s cooperativeness, suspicious Western democracy.
of it, or uninterested in pursuing it, but this But Russian democracy, however un...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 22 (4): 36–46.
Published: 01 December 2006
... be obliged to provide more than shifting to the role of “watchdog” and de
diplomatic support to U.S. policies was not facto collaborator of the LDP, which seemed
seriously considered. Rather, debate centered destined to the permanent ruling party.
on whether even this level of support was Conservative...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (2): 7–26.
Published: 01 June 2004
... over 25 years
have seemed within his grasp that June day. of very hard work, had been shattered in the
Like so many of his other aspirations, how three days following the March 11 bomb
ever, it was ultimately to elude him. ings in Madrid. “You and your war!” his
There is another famous...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (1): 53–61.
Published: 01 March 2015
... may bring east and west together; it may bring north and south together. Everybody has to participate, even if not as equal partners, to shape the whole new paradigm, which is beyond the ethnic, religious kind of ideological paradigms that we have been dealing with. WPJ: Well it seems...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 13–17.
Published: 01 March 2017
... realized. Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 fascism populism capitalism Donald Trump GAGE SKIDMORE GAGE SKIDMORE During the U.S. presidential campaign, most opinion polls and news outlets predicted a Hillary Clinton victory. At the time, it seemed natural—inescapable...
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