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From:World Affairs (Vol. 175, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedMore than half of Afghanistan's population is under twenty-five, which shouldn't be surprising since the average life span there is forty-nine. But the United States Agency for International Development looked at this...
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From:World Affairs (Vol. 176, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAside from the Arab boycott against Israel, American sanctions against Cuba have lasted longer than any other embargo in the modern era. The sanctions were imposed in stages in the early 1960s after Fidel Castro...
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From:Social Justice (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTHE UNITED STATES HAS LONG FLEXED ITS MUSCLES IN LATIN AMERICAN AFFAIRS and exerted its power over the Western Hemisphere. The end of the Cold War failed to ease tensions in US-Latin American relations. The expansion of...
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From:International Journal (Vol. 69, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract There is no question that the number of United States Special Operations Forces (SOF) is growing. This paper argues that focusing on the increase in size obscures what should be the real debate: what kind of...
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From:International Journal (Vol. 69, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Forty years ago, political scientist Denis Stairs published The Diplomacy of Constraint, an account of Canadian involvement in the Korean War. Stairs explored the attempts of Canadian politicians, diplomats,...
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From:World Affairs (Vol. 172, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedNineteen eighty-nine was a most extraordinary year. There are other years that are imprinted on historic memory, but most of them were occasions for horrible events (1917 or 1939) or disappointing ones (1789 or 1848) or...
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From:Teacher Librarian (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA new report, 21st Century Skills, Education, and Competitiveness published in a report from Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2008, finds that in order to be globally competitive and for states to attract growth...
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From:World Policy Journal (Vol. 25, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBack 17 years ago, in the winter of 1991-92, when I was contemplating Israel's future in World Policy Journal, it was supposed to be the dawn of a new age--and I was there. We were about to enter the roaring...
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From:NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 41, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMARGARET THATCHER ONCE ADMONISHED her critics with the assertion that, like it or not, "there is no alternative" to free markets and free trade. The great economists, she argued, have long taught us that such trade...
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From:World Affairs (Vol. 172, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn December 2000, the president had put forward his far-reaching set of parameters on all the final status issues.... He was even prepared to spend his last four days in office negotiating the deal. A desperate Barak...
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From:Foreign Policy in FocusIn espionage, as in sports, we generally see the heroism of our side and the perfidy of the opponent. The latest spy scandal involving the Russian "sleepers" is a case in point. The coverage of the Russian spy ring...
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From:Middle East Policy (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTo the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict or blame their society's ills on the West, know that your people...
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From:Middle East Policy (Vol. 16, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIt would appear logical that the deployment of missile defense (MD) systems in the Middle East is preceded, or at least accompanied, by a thorough debate of possible effects on regional arms dynamics and, in particular,...
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From:McGill Law Journal (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe speaker begins with the Clinton administration's decision that it will not sign the present text of the Statute of the International Criminal Court. Yet he believes that the problems with the treaty are solvable...
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From:NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 33, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedMIAMI--Hundreds of Haitian Americans and African Americans carried black-draped coffins in a mock funeral procession through Miami's Little Haiti district on the night of January 12 to commemorate those who have died...
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From:Foreign Policy in Focus (Vol. 5, Issue 6)Even though the U.S. government sought to help mitigate the Aral Sea crisis, its well-intentioned efforts have conflicted with other donors' programs. First, AID did not actively coordinate with other donors, even...
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From:Foreign Policy in Focus (Vol. 5, Issue 2)The U.S. remains committed to its commercial, economic, military, and political interests, which are often defined in ways that run counter to support for human rights and democracy in Lebanon and elsewhere in the...
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From:Middle East Policy (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIt has been four years since the Iranian president, Mohammed Khatami, proposed a "dialogue between civilizations," but it seems much longer. Indeed, in the year since September 11, the global mood has darkened, and the...
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From:The Journal of Men's Studies (Vol. 11, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis essay continues to examine certain connections between masculiniry, economics and ecotheology, and global violence (cf., Clark, 2002b), by focusing primarily on a single, recently published text, God in the...
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From:Kurdish Life (Issue 44) Peer-ReviewedIn mid-December, Andrew Buncombe reported in the Independent that the Pentagon was "considering a plan to establish covert propaganda operations in countries it considers its allies in order to improve America's image...