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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (2): 85–99.
Published: 01 June 2006
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 111–121.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Heidi Brown © World Policy Institute 2011 2011 World Policy Institute Soviet-era joke: Brezhnev gets a telegram from Siberia—“Quick, send two train cars of vodka. The people have sobered up and are asking where the Tsar is.“ Moscow—Visitors to Russia are often shocked at the ubiquity...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 9–13.
Published: 01 June 2018
... bank accounts and mansions, Estrada’s ouster became a case study of a successful “people power” protest. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the second woman to become president of the Philippines, succeeded Estrada by promising a sober, studied approach to governance. Her style was projected in her best-known...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (3): 1.
Published: 01 September 2001
... Copyright © 2001 World Policy Institute 2001 Not America’s War Alone
It seems unlikely that Americans young or old will experience a more sobering day than
September 11, 2001. The horrific images of Black Tuesday are already indelibly imprinted
on our minds...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 30–34.
Published: 01 December 2017
... with the strongest winds—have increased in frequency, intensity, and duration. The destructive impact of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico, Dominica, and the U.S. Virgin Islands provides a sobering example of things to come. Indigenous peoples on all these islands were severely affected by the storm, but most news...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 15–19.
Published: 01 June 2011
... to weddings and the number of dishes they can be served. The Congress Party-led government, whose members gleefully indulged in the Tanwar wedding revelry, made fresh calls for more sober public behavior from its members. In 2006, with India’s economy going into overdrive, Prime Minister Singh made...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 19 (4): 66–71.
Published: 01 December 2003
... growth, governance, www. refugees .org.
and human rights. 2. Brenda Shaffer, “East of the Oder: One Con
It is a sobering thought that the prob flict That Can Be Solved,” Wall Street Journal Europe,
lems in the Caucasus would pale in compar July 26...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2005) 21 (4): 63–75.
Published: 01 December 2005
... will.41
The history of slavery and the defiance It is a sober note on which to end this
of Indian interests abound with such mu essay, but the question presses upon Ameri
tual entanglement. “If democracy is about cans now as seldom before in our history:
the right to choose one’s leaders...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (2): 9–15.
Published: 01 June 2012
.... At the highest level, the IOC understands the dangers of host cities spending wastefully on spectacular facilities that sit unused after the Games. The vote for the 2012 host city provided a sobering reminder of the realities of the decision making process. The French delegation arrived at the Raffles Hotel...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 18 (4): 97–101.
Published: 01 December 2002
... with
the West— a well-earned role, not a make-believe one. To be sure, as Martin Walker says in
his sobering final paragraphs, any such Russo-Western alliance risks galvanizing a Chinese-
Islamic-Third World counteralliance. That and much else needs to be discussed. Suffice it
to say that we need bold...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (2): 87–93.
Published: 01 June 2003
..., the government. No police. No law. The physi
overwhelming majority of armed conflicts cal infrastructure was in a state of collapse.
have exhibited this profile, and their num Thousands of houses, bridges, roads, and .
ber— 28 a year, on average— is sobering. In public facilities had been destroyed...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (2): 21–28.
Published: 01 June 2003
... diplomacy can have an impact on the pa
can colossus, Iran’s strategic planners have rameters of this debate.
drawn sobering lessons from Operation Iraqi
Freedom. The clerical oligarchs certainly no To Go Nuclear or Not?
ticed that Saddam’s much bruited reposito It is often assumed...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 91–100.
Published: 01 March 2012
... the U.S. secretary of state can do (other than engage in diplomatic niceties) to “help” Nicaragua. The country must find its own way despite the constraints, including those deeply embedded and poorly understood in Nicaragua itself. Solís’s sober analysis echoes another Nicaraguan woman in the mid...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 79–88.
Published: 01 June 2011
... on “the crisis in diplomatic readiness.” The report offered a litany of sobering statistics. Fifty percent of diplomatic positions worldwide are empty. There are only 29 officers to administer education programs in 84 countries. Almost 30 percent of the overseas positions that specifically require foreign...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 76–86.
Published: 01 December 2017
... on-and-off in Sierra Leone as a researcher and academic for about three years prior to the outbreak, and the sobering reality of its recent history made it bittersweet to return. But I was happy to be in Freetown, if only to reunite and break bread with old friends, to see how the city had fared after Ebola...
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View articletitled, The Words are Maps: Two years after an outbreak devastated Sierra Leone, an anthropologist returns to the country in search of a rumored Ebola museum
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 89–99.
Published: 01 June 2011
... secular youth groups that were the driving force of the revolution. Youssef and his fellow revolutionaries are now faced with a sobering prospect. Was it possible that they had enough power to topple Mubarak, but not enough to avoid being pushed aside in the new Egypt? Now that Tahrir Square has been...
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (3): 51–59.
Published: 01 September 2000
... withdrawal.
warned that Amin was exploring openings It was a sober and restrained session. For
to the West, and that the United States the first time, as far as I know, Gorba
stood ready to fill the vacuum left by the chev proposed “a solution for Afghani
Afghan regime’s own incompetence. Brezh stan...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (3): 25–33.
Published: 01 September 2005
... and
the former Soviet Union (whose demise may from their prudent behavior that China’s
well demonstrate the futility of that path). leaders have a more sober sense of the dan
Conceivably, some future national crisis gers of military action. •
could lead China to change direction and
reemphasize its...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (3): 103–112.
Published: 01 September 2005
... policymakers in the Pentagon and the dea
ible optimism of the morning gave way to are pressing for a renewed offensive. Many
more sober consideration of the challenges in the State Department, meanwhile, are
ahead. “Our war now is getting enough warning that any crackdown will come...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (2): 55–64.
Published: 01 June 2001
... of tralia. Interior Ministry troops who patrol
consciousness convinced him that there was the countryside bar visitors from traveling
more to reality that what we saw with our to any of the hundreds of abandoned Syrian
sober, worldly eyes. churches or villages, apart from the large
Damianos...
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