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Paradise Lost?: As extreme weather events threaten the Caribbean, the region’s Indigenous peoples seek a climate-just future
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 30–34.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., Caribbean leaders worry that further negative side effects—such as reduced crop yields, coral reef bleaching, and heightened water scarcity—will follow, threatening ecosystems, food security, and sustainable development. In Paris, governments agreed to address loss and damage and to hold global warming...
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Muzzling the Media: How the New Autocrats Threaten Press Freedoms
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (2): 51–61.
Published: 01 June 2006
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The New Berlin: Offbeat, Disruptive, and Imperiled
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 99–108.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Paul Hockenos Berlin’s gritty, inventive, do-it-yourself underside attracted droves of young, educated people. But now the tides of gentrification threaten the city’s quirky demeanor. World Policy Institute fellow Paul Hockenos explains how Berlin’s artists and residents are fighting back...
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The Trump Effect: Elections at Home and Abroad Dampen Liberia’s Gay-Rights Revival
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 83–89.
Published: 01 September 2017
... this fall—threaten to undo that progress. Journalist Robbie Corey-Boulet reports on the challenges facing Liberia’s LGBT leaders as they contend with possible U.S. funding cuts and local politicians who are stoking homophobia. Four months after the interview was published, the Senate approved Jewel...
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Out of Luck: The Fall of Banco Espírito Santo
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 107–111.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Khadija Sharife The Espírito Santo family were the Rockefellers of Portugal, until the collapse of their business empire threatened to bring down the country’s economy. Investigative reporter Khadija Sharife outlines transparency laws that would act as preventative measures against potential...
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Islands Apart: Why the Saudi-Egypt Alliance is on the Rocks
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 89–95.
Published: 01 December 2016
... transformations threaten to destabilize this crucial alliance. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 Saudi Arabia Egypt nationalism sovereignty Middle East Lawyer Khaled Ali holds up historical documents, which he says proves the islands of Tiran and Sanafir are Egyptian, on June 22...
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From Stalin to Putin, An Insider's View: Talking with Georgi Arbatov
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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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A Torrent of Consequences
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (2): 59–69.
Published: 01 June 2013
.... Torrents of this kind have been known for centuries, but in recent decades, they’ve become far more common. They’re sufficiently prevalent to have acquired an acronym: GLOF, or Glacial Lake Outburst Flood. As acronyms go, GLOF works nicely, suggesting something clumsy, threatening, indifferent to life...
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Imperial America and the Common Interest
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 March 2002
... in February at the World acquired and occupied by the imperial pow
Economic Forum in New York, the United er, often against the wishes of the locals.
States will “go after terrorism wherever it Rather, in Schlesinger’s words, it was one
threatens free men and women,” even if that “richly equipped...
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Deterrence and the ABM: Retreading the Old Calculus
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (3): 23–31.
Published: 01 September 2001
...-based and and the United States were more ambiguous
spaced-based sensors, small and large explo but certainly not cozy, and Iran may have
sive and" passive interceptors meeting in been carrying on similar efforts. More visi
coming missiles in different parts of their bly threatening than those...
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Afghanistan: Mobilizing for Democracy
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 25–36.
Published: 01 September 2012
.... after gaining permission from his sergeant to engage the enemy threatening the base, he fired two shots, killing the assailant. Incensed, some in the crowd charged the inner gate. If the central areas of the base were breached, there could have been an enormous loss of life. The coalition soldiers would...
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American Newness Revisited
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (2): 97–99.
Published: 01 June 2000
... America’s wari
ness of intervening anywhere unless U.S. vital interests were threatened— and its almost
doctrinal belief against risking U.S. casualties rendered its foreign policy uncertain. The
then national security advisor Anthony Lake spoke of pragmatic neo-Wilsonianism, but this
rather...
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Europe: Flailing or Divided
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 10–14.
Published: 01 December 2014
... their belts for leaders who can’t lead and who they don’t trust. What is left is navel gazing, comparing our hopeless fate with that of the others, and building fences against a threatening world surrounding us. And we, the French, are so good at that, we who consider ourselves the most unhappy, unfortunate...
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Toward Universal Empire: The Dangerous Quest for Absolute Security
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (3): 1–10.
Published: 01 September 2002
... threatened and threatened unacceptable consequences
to veto the entire structure of U.N. peace to the parties if they didn’t take it, the basis
keeping operations, and did in fact veto the for success seems altogether lacking.
continuation of the U.N. mission in Bosnia First, such an American...
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Don’t Shoot the Ambulance: Medicine in the Crossfire
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (3): 65–77.
Published: 01 September 2013
... with gunshot wounds, two with life-threatening wounds to the abdomen and the others with leg injuries, at the 100-bed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital here. Just hours earlier, the hospital’s team and local residents had been playing volleyball as the sun began to set on a 106-degree day. But things...
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Embracing Diversity
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 9–13.
Published: 01 March 2013
... raising awareness about incendiary language and its risks for democracy as well as for individual young people, while promoting media and Internet literacy. Hate speech—incitement, spreading, or promoting racial hatred, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and other forms of intolerance—threatens democratic...
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Coda: And Oil We Go
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (1): 118–125.
Published: 01 March 2015
... as confined solely to the currencies of Russia, Nigeria, and Venezuela. For the ripple effects are far broader indeed. The social and political fabric, as well as the economies of all three countries, are seriously threatened by plummeting oil prices, while in the case of Russia those effects are only...
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Anarchy and Order in the New Age of Prevention
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (3): 1–23.
Published: 01 September 2005
... preven
growing acceptance of preventive uses of tive attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor
force.1 While this is in some ways an under in 1941.
standable, and perhaps even inevitable, Likewise, it was an undeniable reality of
development, it is one that threatens to the Cold War...
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Illusions of the Second Nuclear Age
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (1): 25–30.
Published: 01 March 2001
... That blunting of feeling extends into other
peatedly threatening to destroy the world areas. One of the many sins for which advo
in the name of something called “national cates of large nuclear stockpiles must ans
security.” That relief is real, a response to wer is the prevalence of psychic numbing...
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In America’s Name
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (1): 114–116.
Published: 01 March 2004
... that threatened the people of the Soviet Union with nuclear anni
hilation. This same sort of fear has driven the current generation of Americans to accept the
“war” against terrorism. The problem is that terrorists hide among the innocent, and we
cannot wipe terrorists out with artillery or smart bombs...
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