... been more effective in reducing HIV transmission in Africa than have the expensive biomedical interventions run by Western donors. Western biomedical products were successful in squashing other diseases, such as polio and smallpox. But unlike polio or smallpox, stopping HIV involves confronting sexual...

...—which ran first in the International Herald Tribune and later in many other papers—caused an enormous stir. It was the first time a senior Soviet official had talked at length to a Western journalist on the record, without notes, and answered every question put to him in an easy, conversational manner...

...Robin Kirk When the president of Colombia shook hands with the leader of FARC, the longest-running conflict in the Western Hemisphere was over, but ensuring peace after the official end of the fighting is never straightforward. Using examples from Northern Ireland, Argentina, and Chile, author...

...Robbie Corey-Boulet "Either we hide who we are and are at peace with society, or we live publicly, and we are cut off," says Carmen, a 31-year-old from western Cameroon. Journalist Robbie Corey-Boulet writes that in Cameroon and Ivory Coast, gender roles restrict women's financial independence...

...Manal Omar Manal Omar, author and a vice president at the U.S. Institute for Peace, argues that to successfully counter violent extremism (CVE), practitioners need to address concerns that CVE strategies are designed only to serve Western interests. Thus, CVE programming should commit...

... lesson learned poorly by Western supporters of a Moroccan king ruling a long-disputed territory by fiat rather than legitimacy. Morocco has proposed an “autonomy” plan as an alternative to the referendum that the United States is backing as “serious, realistic, and credible.” The plan would cement...

...: Tombstone of Russian Power, was published in paperback in 1 9 9 9 by Y ale University Press. Against Russophobia Anatol Lieven Ever since the Cold War ended, Western of­ able to turn a benign, all-seeing eye from ficials and commentators have been telling above...

... Sea Change or Opportunism? Thomas M. Nichols “We sail in the same boat,” an aide to Rus­ ally pro-Western line. Putin, even more sian president Vladimir Putin said in late than Yeltsin, has placed Russia squarely 2002 of relations between N A TO and Russia, among...

... for peace and secu­ third-largest country.” This war, Rice said, rity on the continent? Why have Western is potentially “among the most dangerous powers been so reluctant to take an active conflicts on the globe.” role in resolving Africa’s first “world war”? Yet, the war in Congo...

... the West responded to Russian conduct in Ukraine since 2014, though this was not a view the Russians shared. Ukrainians, particularly in the central and western regions, seek a future as part of the West and, ideally, as members of the European Union and NATO. In a June 2016 public opinion poll...

... coordination and cooperation aimed at integrated action between the different actors on national and international levels. All Western states, Germany included, must not apply double standards in pursuing their policies. Any approach and action should be fully compatible with the values for which...

... scenarios in which be called an example of “geopolitical chaos instability in Georgia and Azerbaijan could theory.” This tiny mountainous region in suddenly be felt in the wider world. western Azerbaijan, with a mostly Armen­ The issues of oil and unresolved conflict ian population of only...

.... preferred to avoid. Such complaints sug­ Indeed, the same basic issues run through gested that, despite Europe’s dependency, five decades of discourse about Western the NATO alliance was remarkably balanced interdependence: Is the transatlantic rela­ during the Cold War. For better or worse...

... in myth and produced by powerful ideologies. Undergirding Western capitalism is a global system of racism: The genocide of natives in the Americas, transatlantic enslavement of Africans, and colonial and neo-colonial domination were all transnational oppressions. Despite these international origins...

... pro-Western that he early on rejected Russia’s “Eurasian Russian officials pursued a contradictory option” to cultivate ties with China and policy during this period: seeking to join states to the south in favor of a pro-Western Western “clubs,” such as the Group of Seven policy, and was only...

...Kamel Daoud Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 What happened in Cologne on Saint Sylvester’s Eve? It’s difficult to know exactly just from reading the reports, but we do know, at least, what was going on inside of heads—in those of the aggressors, perhaps; in those of Westerners...

... 97 think tanks pored over the fine print in Russia’s developing entente with Washington. At the Carnegie Moscow Center, the historian Dmitri Trenin noted that President Vladimir Putin, while visiting Germany in September, referred for the first time to Western powers as “allies” rather than...

... of transsexuality in both the Iranian and international press has intensified since 2003—all with a certain celebratory tone about the recognition of transsexuality and the legality of sex change operations in Iran. Many Westerners were shocked that such a progressive stance could be taken by a staunchly...

... then on, Japan’s reliance on pacifist rhetoric became a matter of official policy. The further Japan strayed from the liberal Western camp, the stronger the feeling of self-righteous isolation. Japan’s subsequent attempt to expand its sphere of influence in northern China eventually led to the outbreak of war...

... of Europe yet that the Orange Revolution is a sort of distinct, characterized not by Western-style geopolitical virus, a contagion even. Thus liberal values but by Moscow’s brand of Vitaly Tretyakov, a political analyst with quasi-autocratic “managed democracy.” close ties to the Kremlin, has warned...