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... an d h i. Mohandas Gandhi, Abdul Ghaffar Khan, and the Middle East Today Rajmohan G andhi The clouds have parted, at least for the trader caste who led India’s battle for inde­ moment, in the Arab-Israeli conflict. A pendence. Yet his thinking is as relevant...

... of World Policy before decamping for a time to Al Jazeera America online. As the fifth editor in the history of World Policy Journal , he has a remarkable legacy—founding editor Sherle Schwenninger, who today directs the New American Foundation’s Economic Growth and American Strategy Programs; James...

... Last year, the San Francisco-based author Dave Eggers published his book, A Hologram for the King , a vision of Saudi Arabia where the Western world of holograms and the Internet comes up against the hard realities of today’s Saudi Arabia. Eggers, whose novel was nominated for a National Book Award...

... The world’s problems are rarely new. There are always precedents that should inform today’s most crucial decisions. World Policy Journal asked five experts from the United Kingdom, Burundi, Chile, Turkey, and Venezuela what lessons from history keep being forgotten. Copyright © 2016 World Policy...

...Elmira Bayrasli; Lauren Bohn As long as institutions are male-dominated, society will continue to look to men as authorities, argue guest editors Elmira Bayrasli and Lauren Bohn, the co-founders of Foreign Policy Interrupted. The solutions to today's problems cannot be constructed in the minds...

...Rebecca L. Spang The history of money is normally told as a series of material changes and technological improvements, but historian Rebecca L. Spang argues that this version of the past obscures the monetary inequality that exists today. Money is a social and political fact as much...

...Mai El-Sadany The Egyptian government has repeatedly violated the law with arbitrary arrests, torture in detention, and forced disappearances. But in the past, Egyptian legal expert Mai El-Sadany says, at least these measures could have been challenged in court. Today a person may be subjected...

... and highly unusual ambassadorship to that body. Today, he has a powerful advisory role in Barack Obama's presidential bid and has emerged as President George W Bush's most searing foreign policy critic. © 2004 World Policy Institute 2004 World Policy Institute ...

... the inbuilt hostility of much of the Western foreign policy elite towards the Soviet Union and later russia has its foundations in a false reading of Moscow's post–World War II territorial ambitions. To understand today's deteriorating relationship we have no choice but to begin there. © 2004 World Policy...

...Nikki R. Keddie Ironically, the title of my 1987 World Policy Journal article, “Iranian Imbroglios: Who's Irrational?” could serve as well today, 21 years later, for another essay on U.S. policy in Iran. My original effort noted the folly of U.S. government hubris—believing it could maneuver...

..., at least in terms of an outright invasion—a massed force of Warsaw Pact tanks pouring through the Fulda Gap on the border between West Germany and East Germany. Today that chokepoint is actually all part of a united Germany, a thoroughly reliable member of NATO and the European Union. Equally remote...

..., today François Hollande must turn to a deeply fractured parliament for approval on every major and most minor political decisions. In London, where Winston Churchill and his War Cabinet could join his American allies in defense of the Empire, with barely a nod to the House of Commons just down the block...

..., Bahrain, Lebanon, Somalia, Palestine, and Iraq today suffer unsettled conditions that include active warfare, control by external powers, or political authoritarianism that only exacerbates weak citizen-state links. Remarkably, countries like Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, and Yemen still engage in some sort...

... KAZAN KAZAN CATHEDRAL CATHEDRAL 1811 1932 1992 Today...

... Foucault, Louis Aragon, Félix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-François Lyotard. Today, pedophilia is perceived as one of the worst crimes, and instead of fighting for it in the name of anti-Catholic progress, it is associated with the dark side of the Catholic Church. In other words, the fight against...

... and Brazil where significant disparities existed between whites and blacks in each of these markers of equality. Today, large numbers of Afro-Cuban professors, doctors, and other professionals (working in racially integrated public spaces) attest to the ways revolutionary actions brought about change...

... point. In places like Chad, such points were often a country or two away, forcing the major American networks to charter a flight each day to get their stories to a place with a “satellite uplink.” Today, such uplinks are often as far away as the nearest laptop and portable antenna. At the same time...

... by doing this can we survive. Deng [Xiaoping] had this policy about 30 years ago, about letting some people get rich first, to cross the river by touching the stones. The idea was that once they could make the nation rich, the Communists could still stay in power. It’s exactly what they’re doing today...

... a third of which has recently been in For our purposes, it is more useful to say trade with China) is “unsustainable” and that the U.S. economy today is approxi­ will result in some global economic cata­ mately seven Chinas. According to the most clysm. The nightmare scenarios painted by widely...

...” 1 Germans are rightly told not to forget, but anced image of German history. There has such admonitions do not place guilt at the been, and always will be, strife among his­ door of today’s generation. They demand re­ torians. But their achievements— and their sponsibility, reinforced...