Recently added articles from World Policy Journal:
Poland: straddling the nuclear frontier.
Sep 22, 2009; ... TEMPLEWO, POLAND -- Hidden in the outskirts of the Lagowski forest, three kilometers from this small village in far northwestern Poland, stand the remnants of a former Soviet military base. Dilapidated buildings, dark and hollow, are stripped of windows and doors, the plumbing and ...
The Emperor's new clothes: can Japan live without the bomb?
Sep 22, 2009; ... YOKOHAMA -- Authorities in the land of Hiroshima and Nagasaki find President Barack Obama's vision of a world free of nuclear weapons ill-advised. Japanese security policy distilled to its essence is the American nuclear umbrella. Simply put, Tokyo expects the United States to employ ...
Human insecurity.(EDITORS' NOTE)(Editorial)
Jun 22, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The costs and consequences of violence are plain: more than 5,000 American troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan (and tens of thousands of civilians), bloodied protesters on the streets of Tehran, innocents massacred in the "safe zone" between government ...
Economic security for a world in crisis.
Jun 22, 2009; ... Capitalism is in serious crisis. Even so, no one is calling for it to be abandoned in favor of some other system, such as socialism, because everybody is convinced that, with all its faults, capitalism is still the best economic system known to humanity. As every student knows, Adam Smith ...
Afghanistan: graveyard of good intent.
Jun 22, 2009; ... Not long ago, in a remote Afghan village, a well was drilled by a civilian aid group in the heart of the marketplace in the center of town. The team leader had observed that there was no easy access to clean, potable water and undertook the project, assuming it would be welcomed by the ...