Mira Kamdar, senior fellow of the World Policy Institute, former Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society, author of the book Planet India: The Turbulent Rise of the Largest Democracy and the Future of Our World, believes that French President Nicolas Sarkozy is playing to his conservative base with his widely-condemned move to exile his nation's Roma minorities.
Michelle Fanzo appeared on ABC News Australia to discuss the recent elections in Afghanistan. ABC News Australia, September 18, 2010.
The negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority can potentially succeed, but such a success cannot be sustained unless Hamas is brought into the political process in some capacity, Dr. Alon Ben-Meir writes in the following article.
By Alon Ben-Meir
By Rachel Ehrenfeld
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is no stranger to the Islamic agenda. As the Quartet's special envoy to the Middle East, Blair’s recent statement—“If these people could have killed 30,000 or 300,000 [on 9/11], they would have”—should serve as a wake up call.
On Saturday morning, World Policy Journal editor David A. Andelman, delivered the D’var Torah, or people’s sermon on Yom Kippur, at the request of Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald, leader of the “beginner’s service,” an institution of New York’s venerable Lincoln Square Synagogue.
News, media, and political pundits are discussed by Eric Alterman in Think Again: The World as It "Ought to Be." Center for American Progress, September 16, 2010.
In anticipation of the release of the fall issue, which introduces the concept of a Global Canon, WPJ revisits David Rieff's analysis of global cultural diffusion. Reposted from the Winter 1993-4 issue.
By David Rieff
The misnamed "Ground-Zero Mosque" debate continues with verbal religious attacks from all sides. Responding to claims that Political Islam is the new communism, Zachary Karabell offers a pre-9/11 American view of Islamic fundamentalism. Reprinted from our Summer 1995 issue.
By Zachary Karabell
Sherle Schwenniger was quoted in a recent article on blue-collar workers' employment struggles and the economic crisis. Blue-Collar, Unemployed, and Seeing Red." Reuters, September 15, 2010.