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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in World Policy Journal.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 27 (2010) - vol. 28 (2011), Vol. 33 (2016) - Vol. 35 (2018)Latest Articles: World Policy JournalTWOProject MUSE®World Policy Journal1936-09240740-2775Latest articles in World Policy Journal. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Editor’s Note: Megalomania
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/701253
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The term “megalomania” first came into use in the late 19th century when a French neurologist delivered a paper detailing the condition as one in which “grandiose delusions and delusions of persecution coexist or alternate.” It entered popular use by 1918 and spiked, not serendipitously, around the beginning of World War II. Megalomania as a psychological condition was officially replaced by “narcissistic personality disorder” in 1980, yet the term, denoting a mania for power, a tenuous relationship with reality, and a persecution complex, remains a useful frame through which to view the world—or, at least, many of those who now control it.For the summer issue, we scoured the globe for instructive case studies. On
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/479/image/coversmallEditor’s Note: Megalomania2018-08-17text/htmlen-USEditor’s Note: Megalomania2018-08-172018TWOProject MUSE®62642026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002018-08-17Castles Made of Sand: How London lost on Boris Johnson’s extravagant pet projects
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/701254
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FRED ROMEROBefore the 2012 Olympics, most Londoners would not have even known about the area, a forgotten wilderness of industrial detritus and overgrown canals, apart from those few who still worked there, and a community of artists who had installed themselves in warehouses around the periphery. But now, a visitor emerging from the vast warren of the West-field Stratford shopping center, after walking past some new office blocks and rather dubious student housing, will find the park is well used and friendly. Subtle in character, the design has surrounded the cleaned-up waterways with a wild-grass landscape that dates it as a product of the early 2010s, but which is also a genuinely pleasant environment.The
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/479/image/coversmallCastles Made of Sand: How London lost on Boris Johnson’s extravagant pet projects2018-08-17text/htmlen-USCastles Made of Sand: How London lost on Boris Johnson’s extravagant pet projects2018-08-172018TWOProject MUSE®212482026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002018-08-17War of Words: Rodrigo Duterte’s violent relationship with language
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/701255
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ROBINSON NIÑAL/PPD“I know that there are those who do not approve of my methods of fighting criminality,” Rodrigo Duterte announced in his first speech after being sworn in as president of the Philippines on June 30, 2016. Despite having been mayor of the war-torn city of Davao for more than two decades, the new president was a political outsider, having narrowly secured his victory after a late turnaround in the polls. In his inaugural address, he was referring to criticism and accusations that had hounded him throughout the campaign—that in his confrontations with a communist insurgency, Islamist rebellion, and illegal drug epidemic, he had ordered the killing of hundreds of suspected criminals and even admitted
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/479/image/coversmallWar of Words: Rodrigo Duterte’s violent relationship with language2018-08-17text/htmlen-USWar of Words: Rodrigo Duterte’s violent relationship with language2018-08-172018TWOProject MUSE®178612026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002018-08-17Femme Fascista: How Giorgia Meloni became the star of Italy’s far right
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/701256
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HILLMAN54About a month before Italy’s disastrously inconclusive March elections, Giorgia Meloni, the flaxen-haired leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy party, stood in the gusty winter wind to kick off her campaign in front of the crowd that had gathered in Latina’s Piazza del Popolo. At her side was Rachele Mussolini, a local candidate for her party who just happens to be the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini. Meloni took Mussolini’s granddaughter’s hand in hers and raised it in the air. “We want to win back this symbolic place in the history of the Italian right,” Meloni yelled over raucous applause from the packed piazza.The town of Latina, about 45 miles south of Rome, was hardly a random choice from which
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/479/image/coversmallFemme Fascista: How Giorgia Meloni became the star of Italy’s far right2018-08-17text/htmlen-USFemme Fascista: How Giorgia Meloni became the star of Italy’s far right2018-08-172018TWOProject MUSE®250032026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002018-08-17The Generals in Their Labyrinth: The rise of Egypt’s military celebrities
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/701257
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MONA ABO-ISSAA general explains a 1973 espionage mission at the Mohamed Ali Citadel.General Tolba Radwan smokes another cigarette and watches from behind dark glasses as his entourage of fans squeeze in for selfies with Egypt’s latest military wonder. The general, now 70, is annoyed. When he was 26, he commanded dozens of soldiers on suicidal missions to defend his country. Now, he takes crowds of camera-toting families on battlefield tours. Behind Tolba burbles the New Suez Canal, a 22-mile-long tributary whose construction was spearheaded by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. The zinc-colored water cuts through the desert, which is bare except for the occasional “Long Live Egypt” mosaic and palm tree sticking out
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/479/image/coversmallThe Generals in Their Labyrinth: The rise of Egypt’s military celebrities2018-08-17text/htmlen-USThe Generals in Their Labyrinth: The rise of Egypt’s military celebrities2018-08-172018TWOProject MUSE®296652026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002018-08-17Anatomy: Money Moves
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/701258
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For the world’s wealthiest, flows of money tend to stay secret —save for philanthropy, public service, and scandal. World Policy Journal looks at some of the richest people in countries around the globe, where their money came from, and how their wealth appears in the public sphere.Compiled by John Kiehl and Helena OngSources: Forbes “The World’s Billionaires,” 27 April 2018. I Li Ka-shing: “Li Ka-Shing, Hong Kong’s Richest Man, Will Retire, Ending an Era,” The New York Times, March 2018 I Pham Nhat Vuong: Forbes profile I Pony Ma: “Founder of China’s Tencent to Give $2 Billion in Shares to Charity,” Reuters, April 2016 I Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi: “Pouring it on,” Forbes, March 2005 I Jeff Bezos: Forbes profile I
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/479/image/coversmallAnatomy: Money Moves2018-08-17text/htmlen-USAnatomy: Money Moves2018-08-172018TWOProject MUSE®33112026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002018-08-17Don’t Look Now: Can Norway reckon with the reality of right-wing extremists?
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/701259
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AGNETE BRUN / PARADOX FILMA scene from Utøya–July 22Erik Poppe’s film Utøya–July 22, which premiered at the International Biennale in Berlin earlier this year, opens with a shot of the main character, 18-year-old Kaja, played by the young Norwegian actress Andrea Berntzen, standing in a wood. She stares intensely into the camera and asserts: “You will never understand. This happened to me.” Kaja then leads us to a clearing full of tents and teenagers. Poppe’s film takes us back to the worst terrorist attack in modern Norwegian history, perpetrated in 2011 by the white Norwegian right-wing extremist and white supremacist Anders Behring Breivik. Except for a few split seconds in which we get a glimpse of a man in a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/479/image/coversmallDon’t Look Now: Can Norway reckon with the reality of right-wing extremists?2018-08-17text/htmlen-USDon’t Look Now: Can Norway reckon with the reality of right-wing extremists?2018-08-172018TWOProject MUSE®221402026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002018-08-17Wrinkles in Time: A Swiss watchmaker tries to reset the world’s clocks
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/701260
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PASJA1000We know time zones as a necessary evil: harbingers of jet lag, the bane of conference calls. We tolerate them, because, well, everyone else seems to, even if negotiating a Skype meeting regularly degrades into a humiliating reminder of the difficulty of combining elementary arithmetic and geography. Logically, time zones should neatly divide the planet into 24 identical segments, cut in parallel to the lines of longitude. However, this rational division is the exception rather than the rule. Time zones entangle the world in an invisible, irregular net, whose weave distorts around centers of power. A time zone is, above all, a sovereign choice, an indicator of political proximity or political distance.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/479/image/coversmallWrinkles in Time: A Swiss watchmaker tries to reset the world’s clocks2018-08-17text/htmlen-USWrinkles in Time: A Swiss watchmaker tries to reset the world’s clocks2018-08-172018TWOProject MUSE®209892026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002018-08-17Reading Between the Lines: The slow reveal of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s grandiose vision
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/701261
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ADAM JONESNecip Fazıl Kısakürek was a Turkish poet. In the 1920s, as the Ottoman Empire disintegrated and the modern Turkish republic took its place, he read philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and became a disciple of the philosopher Henri Bergson. But at the end of his studies, Kısakürek felt purposeless. When he returned home he distanced himself from the Westernizing followers of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, annoyed by their view of Islam as a regressive religion that needed to be eradicated from the public sphere. He started a conservative literary magazine called Ağaç (The Tree) and spent his days drinking, smoking, and gambling in the bohemian quarters of Istanbul. His writer friends
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/479/image/coversmallReading Between the Lines: The slow reveal of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s grandiose vision2018-08-17text/htmlen-USReading Between the Lines: The slow reveal of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s grandiose vision2018-08-172018TWOProject MUSE®292942026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002018-08-17Anatomy: A Royal Offense
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/701262
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Numerous countries have lèse-majesté laws on their books, prohibiting insult to the sovereign or head of state. The laws can forbid anything from questioning a leader’s authority in the media to viewing a negative post about a sovereign online. Below, World Policy Journal looks at countries that have such laws in place, and the length of the jail term (in years) an offender could face.Thailand’s lèse-majesté laws forbid insulting any member of the royal family. This includes stepping on the currency, which bears the king’s image. The number of lèse-majesté cases filed by police rose following the 2006 coup, reaching 104 in 2009 before dropping again. After the 2014 coup, which established a military junta, the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/479/image/coversmallAnatomy: A Royal Offense2018-08-17text/htmlen-USAnatomy: A Royal Offense2018-08-172018TWOProject MUSE®39732026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002018-08-17Killing for Airtime: How Boko Haram’s Abubakar Shekau manipulates media
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/701263
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BREANNE PYEOn the night of April 14, 2014, in the town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria, 276 girls between the ages of 15 and 24 were abducted from their school dormitory. It led to the biggest publicity coup to date by Boko Haram, the jihadist group led by Abubakar Shekau. Activists took to the streets of major Nigerian cities to protest, camping out in front of government buildings. A media frenzy ensued. The shocking incident sparked a global campaign to “Bring Back Our Girls,” which saw the involvement of celebrities from Malala to Michelle Obama. Boko Haram was discussed on high-profile talk shows across the world. Images of the group’s leader flashed regularly across TV screens. His every comment was translated
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/479/image/coversmallKilling for Airtime: How Boko Haram’s Abubakar Shekau manipulates media2018-08-17text/htmlen-USKilling for Airtime: How Boko Haram’s Abubakar Shekau manipulates media2018-08-172018TWOProject MUSE®169202026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002018-08-17The Other Battle of Algiers: Overcoming an architecture of oppression
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/701264
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESSAlgeria is most vivid in the imaginations of many non-Algerians as it was depicted by Gillo Pontecorvo and Yacef Saadi in their now-classic 1966 film, The Battle of Algiers. Set in the Algerian capital, it animated the city with revolution, showing men running clumsily through the winding streets of the Casbah, the old Islamic city, disguised in the archetypical, enveloping white veil worn by Algéroises women. Their heavy shoes, visible beneath the hems of these disguises, is what ultimately gives them away to the French military officers. The wide, well-swept streets of the European district of Bab el Oued are shot from the perspective of an unlucky vegetable seller. He is depicted staring up
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/479/image/coversmallThe Other Battle of Algiers: Overcoming an architecture of oppression2018-08-17text/htmlen-USThe Other Battle of Algiers: Overcoming an architecture of oppression2018-08-172018TWOProject MUSE®253872026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002018-08-17Crashing the Party: The radical legacy of a Soviet-era feminist
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/701265
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SOVIETECAIn recent years, American and Western European policymakers and business leaders have been forced to confront stark gender imbalances within prestigious and well-paid fields, including medicine, science, and engineering. Although some wish to lay the blame on intrinsic neurobiological differences between the sexes, a glance toward the East deflates this argument. In 2015, an OECD report on health found that six of the top 10 countries with the highest percentage of female doctors are in Eastern Europe. An astounding three-fourths of all doctors in Estonia are women, compared to only one-third of the doctors in the United States. A 2015 UNESCO report determined that Eastern European countries have far more
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/479/image/coversmallCrashing the Party: The radical legacy of a Soviet-era feminist2018-08-17text/htmlen-USCrashing the Party: The radical legacy of a Soviet-era feminist2018-08-172018TWOProject MUSE®193512026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002018-08-17Backroom Dealings
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/701266
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The following definitions are taken from the glossary of The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, a two-part book that emerged as part of an ongoing research project by University College London’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Committed to the study of the “world’s open secrets, unwritten rules, and hidden practices,” the project is the first of its kind to seriously investigate the informal ways in which people make things happen.GOUDUI AND YINGCHOU (CHINA): ways entrepreneurs form informal ties with state officials, including through banqueting, karaoke, and brothels.BIOMBO (COSTA RICA): an illegal payment made to a medical professional in exchange for providing preferential treatment to a patient
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/479/image/coversmallBackroom Dealings2018-08-17text/htmlen-USBackroom Dealings2018-08-172018TWOProject MUSE®51202026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002018-08-17Show Me a Hero: Political disillusionment elevates a strongman before Brazil’s election
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/701267
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AGÊNCIA BRASIL FOTOGRAFIASApril 7, 2018, was a day of historical importance for Brazil. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as Lula) was arrested for corruption and money laundering. Aside from being immensely popular, the center-left former president was, up until that day, also the leading contender in this year’s national election. His arrest makes disqualification a near certainty. At the moment, there is no candidate on the left who comes close to his popularity or poll numbers. It is unclear how much of the goodwill toward his Workers’ Party (PT) will be transferred to a new candidate, and how much of it will flow elsewhere.Lula is an unique figure in Brazilian politics: He’s a charismatic leader associated
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/479/image/coversmallShow Me a Hero: Political disillusionment elevates a strongman before Brazil’s election2018-08-17text/htmlen-USShow Me a Hero: Political disillusionment elevates a strongman before Brazil’s election2018-08-172018TWOProject MUSE®200432026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002018-08-17Triumph of the Till: The organic food movement’s Nazi past
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/701268
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WERNER KOLLATH, DIE ORDNUNG UNSERER NAHRUNG (STUTTGART: HIPPOKRATES, 1942), BACK MATTER.“Leave our food as natural as possible!” Whether or not you agree with this statement, it probably sounds familiar. Natural food advocates have a vested interest in convincing you that their foods are better: environmentally for our planet, physiologically for our bodies, and ethically for animals and other humans. In one particularly clever ad released on You-Tube by the Organic Trade Association, “the organic rebellion” battles for control of the American supermarket against “the dark side of the farm.” The rebels are Cuke Skywalker, Obi Wan Cannoli, Tofu D2, Chew Broccoli, and Princess Lettuce; on the dark side are Darth
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/479/image/coversmallTriumph of the Till: The organic food movement’s Nazi past2018-08-17text/htmlen-USTriumph of the Till: The organic food movement’s Nazi past2018-08-172018TWOProject MUSE®161732026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002018-08-17Publish and Perish: Lessons in literature and revolution from a sycophantic Mongolian dictator
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/701269
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JESSICA LOUDISMany dictators write books, although few have any talent—except, perhaps, in their sheer ability to produce words on an industrial scale. But while practically all dictators, left and right, would commit crimes against literature in the 20th century, it was the communists who were especially prolific generators of stultifying text. As self-proclaimed standard-bearers of the vision of history outlined by Karl Marx, they were participants in a tradition whereby demonstrating theoretical expertise via books, pamphlets, and articles was key to establishing their authority as superior thinkers uniquely qualified to lead the proletariat into the future. But if you open many of these books it is difficult to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/479/image/coversmallPublish and Perish: Lessons in literature and revolution from a sycophantic Mongolian dictator2018-08-17text/htmlen-USPublish and Perish: Lessons in literature and revolution from a sycophantic Mongolian dictator2018-08-172018TWOProject MUSE®206032026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002018-08-17A History of Violence: The breakdown of Venezuela’s social order
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/701270
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A military tank drives across the capital of Caracas. It was used in a police raid that targeted seven insurgents. More than 500 agents were involved in the raid.Protests during a 48-hour general strike in 2017 resulted in two deaths, dozens of detentions, and hundreds of injuries in Caracas alone.When President Hugo Chávez died in 2013, Venezuela was already a violent country. A long history of corruption paired with a huge wealth gap had resulted in escalating rates of violence and the brutalization of disenfranchised groups. But, as the world would later realize, the worst was yet to come.It’s common to see “hunger,” “misery,” and anti-Maduro slogans written on Caracas’ subways. Most graffiti writers protest by
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/479/image/coversmallA History of Violence: The breakdown of Venezuela’s social order2018-08-17text/htmlen-USA History of Violence: The breakdown of Venezuela’s social order2018-08-172018TWOProject MUSE®137052026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002018-08-17Democracy, Now? A conversation with Atossa Araxia Abrahamian and Yascha Mounk
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/701271
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COLUMBIA GLOBAL REPORTS/HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESSSince the U.K.’s decision to formally exit the European Union 18 months ago, people around the world have watched in fascination and horror as democratic states turn into petri dishes for populist movements, and once-venerable institutions see their legitimacy come into question. Whatever the causes of this so-called crisis of democracy—the ascent of the service economy; the rise of global inequality, xenophobia, mass migration; the loss of the remaining members of the World War II generation—something is rotten in the state of the world. WPJ editor Jessica Loudis spoke with Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, author of The Cosmopolites (Columbia Global Reports, 2015) and a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/479/image/coversmallDemocracy, Now? A conversation with Atossa Araxia Abrahamian and Yascha Mounk2018-08-17text/htmlen-USDemocracy, Now? A conversation with Atossa Araxia Abrahamian and Yascha Mounk2018-08-172018TWOProject MUSE®209382026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002018-08-17Home in Honduras: Snapshots of life after deportation
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/701272
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AMELIA FRANK-VITALESince September 2017, I’ve been living in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, conducting research among recent deportees for my doctoral thesis in anthropology. After years studying Central American transit migration through Mexico, I came to Honduras to get a firsthand look at what is driving people to flee this country in steadily increasing numbers. In the process, I’ve been able to see how those who were sent back negotiate life after deportation.She didn’t know there was a thing called asylum. She just knew she had to go.Maribel left Honduras three weeks after accidentally witnessing the disposal of a body. A recruiter for Avon, she was making her rounds in the neighborhoods outside of Choloma, a city
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/479/image/coversmallHome in Honduras: Snapshots of life after deportation2018-08-17text/htmlen-USHome in Honduras: Snapshots of life after deportation2018-08-172018TWOProject MUSE®203802026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002018-08-17Privacy Please: The controversial approach to ending open defecation in India and Nepal
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/701273
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SOPHIE BADERI vividly recall the first train trip I took in India almost a decade ago. I remember waking up to watch the red sun rise in the western state of Rajasthan in May, the hottest month of the year. It revealed a stunning landscape: scorched grass as far as the eye could see, weathered trees, and rows of brown mud huts. The terrain brought with it an array of new sounds and smells—the clamoring of pots and pans, chickens squabbling, and bubbling, fragrant, gingery chai.Looking down, I also saw a long row of people squatting along the train tracks. It took me a few minutes to realize that they were defecating. As the train continued, I saw more and more people in groups openly defecating; it was part of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/479/image/coversmallPrivacy Please: The controversial approach to ending open defecation in India and Nepal2018-08-17text/htmlen-USPrivacy Please: The controversial approach to ending open defecation in India and Nepal2018-08-172018TWOProject MUSE®211082026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002018-08-17Provocations: The 1968 revolution and our own
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Half a century after May 1968 events in Paris (and elsewhere), the time has come to reflect upon the similarities and differences between the sexual liberation and feminism of the 1960s and the protest movements that flourish today, from LGBT+ to #MeToo. Although an immense abyss separates the revolt of the 60s from today’s protests, we are now witnessing a similar reappropriation of the energy of protest and revolt by the capitalist system.One of the well-known graffiti slogans seen around Paris in 1968 was: “Structures do not walk on the streets.” In other words, one cannot explain the large student and worker demonstrations of that year in the terms of structuralism (which is why some historians even posit 1968
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/479/image/coversmallProvocations: The 1968 revolution and our own2018-08-17text/htmlen-USProvocations: The 1968 revolution and our own2018-08-172018TWOProject MUSE®238002026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002018-08-17He Loved His Country
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/701275
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I delight in the questionable taste most dictators seem to demonstrate in their drinking, if they partake at all. It seems to be all or nothing for the legendary despots—recall that Hitler was famously a teetotaler. Of course, as a bartender I try not to psychoanalyze anyone by his or her order, but I do take special pleasure in Saddam Hussein and Benito Mussolini’s drinks of choice. Mateus, a medium-sweet frizzante rosé that once made up 40 percent of Portugal’s total wine export before wine coolers and white zinfandel elbowed their way into the alcoholic sweet-tooth market, was stocked by the pallet in all of Hussein’s palaces. (It was also the tipple of choice for noted Christian taste-maker Roy Moore.)
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