... 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...

...David A. Andelman © World Policy Institute 2015 2015 World Policy Institute Photo: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center In May 2008, when I took the helm of World Policy Journal , the world was in a very different place than it is today. In terms of leadership, George W. Bush had...

... 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...

...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 as it is an...

...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 the...

... 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 ...

... convinced 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...

...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 to...

... 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 of...

.... MUSEUMAND ATHEISM OF RELIGION KAZAN KAZAN CATHEDRAL CATHEDRAL 1811 1932 1992 Today...

... Germany. Today that chokepoint is actually all part of a united Germany, a thoroughly reliable member of NATO and the European Union. Equally remote—a second, more cosmic fear of a first-strike nuclear attack by Soviet missile forces that could wipe out the capacity of the United States and Western Europe...

..., 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...

... TRANSLATION 6,847 13,531 Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump • 8 Nov 2016 Narendra Modi @narendramodi • 19 Mar 2016 Vladimir Putin @PutinRF_Eng • 9 Nov 2016 TODAY WE MAKE AMERICA GREAT...

... identifying what is really wrong in the Arab world, and how to start fixing it, is our great collective challenge and, to date, our collective failure. Syria and Iraq are the epicenter of today’s troubled Arab political reality. Syria, in particular, has emerged as the battleground for perhaps the...

... they would not be abused. Clearly today that contract has broken down. Perhaps we need a new set of confidence building measures. These cannot be built with politicians, the very cause of our mistrust at the moment. The answer may be some sort of independent scrutiny of government secrecy that can...

... in exile. In the 1960s and again today in 21st century, black women have played a central role in these struggles. That their story is often overshadowed by other national, masculinist narratives does not negate their work. Today, local organizations are recovering this history and pushing back...

...The Editors © World Policy Institute 2014 2014 World Policy Institute Connectivity is the intellectual lubricant of our time. And today, more than at any other point in human history, we are all connected—with each other, with our leaders and followers, with our friends, relatives, and...

... today’s predominant collective memory, “our” basic idea of the May demonstrations in Paris, the link between student protests and worker strikes, is forgotten. The true legacy of 1968 resides in its rejection of the liberal-capitalist system, in a “no” to the totality of it best encapsulated in the...

... about right and wrong only because of intuition. I don’t think the authorities ever prepared for this kind of uprising. WPJ: But when we look around China today, we see that many people are living better lives than ever before and that they appear to be quite happy. How do you explain this...