[Above: President Barack Obama greets Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the Summit of the Americas in 2009. Image courtesy of Flickr user vaXzine]
By Robert Valencia
The German Draft, Dodged For Good
[Above: West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer reviewing troops from the newly-established Bundeswehr in 1955. Image courtesy of Bundesarchiv.]
By Elizabeth Pond
BERLIN – After half a century of honorable service, German conscription is bowing out.
The Future of the City: An End to Privacy?
[Editor's note: The theme of the Winter 2010-2011 issue of World Policy Journal is “Megalopolis: The City of the 21st Century.” We asked experts, policymakers, and writers from around the world to answer this question: “In the future, what will our cities look like?”]
The New Musical Eclecticism
[Editor's note: The following article revisits the idea of the "global canon" — the theme of World Policy Journal's Fall 2010 issue.]
By R. David Salvage
The ICC in Kenya: A Step Forward for International Justice
By Belinda Cooper
In late 2007 and early 2008, riots erupted in Kenya in the wake of a fiercely contested presidential election. During violence that stemmed in part from ethnic and tribal tensions, more than 1,000 Kenyans were killed and hundreds of thousands were displaced.
Detained in Belarus (UPDATED)
WPI Project Manager Todd Lester writes in with distressing news: Natalia Koliada, General Producer of the Belarus Free Theater – which we wrote about last month – has been detained during a crackdown on dissent following yesterday’s widely-
