... researcher at Moscow’s Institute of Geography. “In the 1990s, there was a feeling of democracy, [a hope] that Russia was becoming a normal European country. But now it’s different. There is more potential for the individual in the West.” A recent Moscow State Pedagogical University poll shows that 80 percent...

...Joshua Kurlantzick Copyright © 2003 World Policy Institute 2003 REPORTAGE Joshua Kurlantzick is foreign editor o/The New Republic. He previously covered A sia for U.S. News & World Report and The Economist. The Dragon Still Has Teeth How the West Winks...

...Thomas M. Nichols Copyright © 2003 World Policy Institute 2003 Thomas M. Nichols is chairman of the Department of Strategy and Policy at the U.S. Naval War College, and the author of Winning the World: Lessons for America’s Future from the Cold War. Russia’s Turn West...

... in early 2014 produced the worst crisis between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. In its wake, foreign policy mavens have engaged in contentious debates over Ukraine’s future and the West’s choices. During the Obama administration, the West imposed sanctions on Russia, viewing its...

... in the countryside. We talked as we did 30 years ago, at great length, over vodka, coffee, cucumber, and beetroot. The advisor to every Soviet president from Leonid Brezhnev to Mikhail Gorbachev remains as lucid as he was when he told me in November, 1978, that if the West pursued its relationship of growing closer...

...Rafia Zakaria Author and columnist Rafia Zakaria critiques the coverage of honor crimes in the West. If the project of honor-crime storytelling is to bring about a moral shift in communities, then the naming-and-shaming model of journalism has failed. Instead, stories need to be directed toward...

... of the Palestinian movement eling in the West Bank. Many U.N. mem­ following Yasir Arafat’s death, this is the bers believe that these particular acts by moment for reassessing the Palestinian Palestinians do not fall under the heading of strategy. terrorism because...

... great-power pretensions and paign after September 11, which repre­ join what they called the “civilized” world, sented a decisive break with both the Soviet i.e., the West. During the Clinton adminis­ past and the ambivalence of Russia’s first tration, the United States facilitated Russia’s...

... Bethlehem, West Bank—At the edge of Bethlehem, a few blocks from Gilo terminal, past one of the checkpoints where anyone who needs to reach Israel must pass, is a small apartment—its view obstructed by the Barrier. The home was recently built by its Palestinian Christian owner, Adnan, from money he had...

... in August, it shocked the world’s security establishment. This unprecedented cooperation between Russia and Iran sent a clear signal to the West that both countries were committed to safeguarding their interests in Syria, whatever the costs. The latest offensive in Aleppo is further testament that Iran...

...Matt Surrusco Matt Surrusco is a journalist who reported for +972 Magazine from Jerusalem in 2013. © World Policy Institute 2014 2014 World Policy Institute Photo: Michael Loadenthal ZBEIDAT, West Bank—The electricity in the village went out for the third time on a warm...

... George W. Bush has declared that maps of potential land swaps. Finding the America supports a future Palestinian state, route to peace in Israel, the West Bank, and but will not help create one until the Pales­ Gaza cannot be reduced to some sort of ab­ tinian people elect “new...

.... Creative civil society has to roll up its sleeves, too. Berlin’s creators need to push back the tides of gentrification, instilling campaigns like RYC and Kotti&Co with the kind of passion that distinguished from-below movements of the past, such as West Berlin’s 1980s squatter movement...

... turmoil in the twentieth century, Russia endured foreign inter­ vention and loss of territory, only to recover and become bigger than before. So can it hap­ pen again? Dr. Trenin offers his judgment in his final paragraph: Russia-Eurasia is over. To the west of its borders, there lies...

...Karl E.Meyer Copyright © 2003 World Policy Institute 2003 K arl E. Meyer is editor of W o rld P o licy Jo u rn a l. The Invention of Pakistan How the British Raj Sundered K a rl E. Meyer Think of an Islamic country of plenary im­ stan’s North-West...

... legendary, not merely as a traditional sphere bridgehead,” a “second Poland” that will of influence but also for its more recent am­ abandon the old Soviet fold and join the bition to create a new “Euro-East,” a whole West. Just beneath the surface lurks the fear civilizational zone that is part...

... of the Pakistani Taliban, has as its central feature a story of rebellion. Written in the first person, it begins with the narrator, a single woman named Khaula, waiting at an airport in the West. She is eager to leave, abandon the land of the infidel, and make her way to Khorasan, the name used by the Taliban...

... Africa and a trade route between the economies of West and Central Africa. The region’s only deepwater port, Douala, plays a decisive role in its economy. Thanks to the infrastructure created since German colonization and the road and rail networks that radiate toward its hinterlands, Cameroon controls...

..., often unstated, assumptions have in­ provides political responses to today’s socie­ spired much of the discussion in the West tal challenges by imagining a future, the regarding political Islam over the last foundations for which rest on reappropri­ decade and a half—especially since 9/11. ated...