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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 115–121.
Published: 01 June 2017
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 58–71.
Published: 01 December 2015
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 50–63.
Published: 01 September 2017
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 91–100.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Daniel Fahey When Daniel Fahey visited eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as coordinator of the U.N.’s Group of Experts, he found a charismatic charlatan known as “Mr. X” under the protection of the U.N. A star witness in a murder trial, Mr. X had convinced the U.N. of his tall tales. Fahey shows...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 39–44.
Published: 01 September 2016
... into a permanent part of the social environment. Nearly two centuries after Locke, William Stanley Jevons—co-founder of the “Marginal Revolution” in economics, which introduced the idea that each additional unit of a commodity is less valuable to the consumer—told a similar tale, one which contrasted...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 94–105.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., tale of missing archives, clandestine purge operations, and high-level state cover-ups. In Nairobi, the trial’s three plaintiffs had gathered with supporters at the Kenya Human Rights Commission. Sitting quietly together, the three octogenarians, none of whom speak English, were a crude testimony...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (2): 89–92.
Published: 01 June 2001
... that resulted in dark and freezing
homes during an unseasonably cold winter, the result of managerial incompetence and Rus
sia’s cutoff of natural gas to punish Georgia for an unpaid bill of $179 million. Symptoms of
distress are everywhere apparent, in tales of householders who lament rising street crime...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 1–2.
Published: 01 June 2014
... Koovagam. And the remarkable journey of Japan away from nuclear self-sufficiency to the post-Fukushima era is the little-understood tale woven by Paul Sullivan. Finally, in his Coda, World Policy Journal editor David A. Andelman chronicles the transformation of the media world over the last half century...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 March 2011
... of Recession. Paths have begun to appear out of the deep wilderness of despair. So in our Spring issue, we thought it would be a good time to explore some of these paths—the green shoots that could be leading much of the world to a promising future, while at the same time exploring some cautionary tales. How...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 1–2.
Published: 01 December 2012
... perch in the Niger Delta, uncovers how oil extraction is destroying a region and its way of life—an environmental, cautionary tale with implications far beyond the oil fields of Nigeria. In our Portfolio, the extraordinary Saudi photojournalist Hasan Hatrash, behind the scenes in Mecca, chronicles...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 1–2.
Published: 01 September 2011
... brings us to the Coda, where World Policy Journal editor David A. Andelman explores the role of democracy, the various forms it has taken through the years and across continents, and the dangers embedded in our efforts to impose our form of government on the world—a cautionary tale indeed...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 1–2.
Published: 01 September 2017
... Alsultan, who, as a longtime wedding photographer, started to wonder what happened to the marriages she captured on film. In her project “Saudi Tales of Love,” she collects the stories of these relationships, revealing both the obstacles imposed by sexist laws and the strength of women across the Arabian...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 March 2017
... group—Akromiya. In both cases, the make-believe tales were designed to demonize Muslims and inflate the terrorist threat. Kendzior writes that Conway’s fantasies “should not be dismissed merely as disprovable nonsense. They should be heeded as a warning and viewed as a contribution to a greater...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 22 (4): 63–68.
Published: 01 December 2006
... that could be viewed as ei
often mystical, connection with God. Its ther Hindu or Muslim. Most importantly,
meditative practices draw upon local idioms the tale is popular across religious commu
and imagery, permitting great cultural in nities as a story perceived to be quintessen
clusiveness...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (1): 85–91.
Published: 01 March 2006
.... And as always, the tombaroli shovel with impunity in the very Etruscan areas from
which the Euphronios krater was almost surely unearthed. Therein lies a tale.
The Truth about the Krater?
In 1984, during a swing through Italy, my wife Shareen Brysac and I tarried in Cerveteri,
among the richest...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 10–13.
Published: 01 December 2015
... of civilian rule over military dictatorship but also in the achievements of three women in one of the world’s least egalitarian regions. In the biblical tale, humans’ expulsion from Eden came after eating fruit from the tree of knowledge. In the far-from-Edenic garden that is today’s Latin America...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 64–66.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., certainly. It’s a fascinating tale of fantasies being played out. The events in themselves couldn’t correspond better to the mingling images that the Westerner cultivates of the Other, the immigrant-refugee: bleeding-heart optimism, terror, reactivation of the ancient fear of invasion of barbarians...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (1): 113–115.
Published: 01 March 2001
...Karl E. Meyer Copyright © 2001 World Policy Institute 2001 C *D A
“One Hell of a Gamble”
To speak of “movie history” is to risk an oxymoron. No fabrication is too outlandish, no tale
too tall, or liberty too gross, in a genre commonly concocted by the uncaring to amuse...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 9–12.
Published: 01 March 2017
... by American policy officials is somewhat new, though one can see its roots in the Bush administration’s fraudulent tales of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and in Karl Rove’s 2004 claim that “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.” For those who study authoritarian states...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 March 2002
... of precedented in their global scope, and the
Imperial America and the Common Interest 3
expansion of American power worldwide. ness of untried things to break a path in the
Beginning with the Reagan presidency, New World.” But later his tales darkened...
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