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Leveraging Islam
Following the implosion or removal of totalitarian regimes of the secular and religious varieties, we have witnessed an explosive growth in numerous forms of antisocial behavior.
Stati In Crisi, Cultura Morale E Politica Estera
A suguito dell'implosione o della rimozione di regimi totalitari, sia di tipo secolare, sia di tipo religioso, si e verificata una crescita esplosiva di praticamente ogni forma concepibilie di comp
Das Leben Nach Bush
Die bevorstehenden Kongresswahlen und die ersten Positionskampfe vor Prasidentschaftswahlen 2008 haben in Amerika eine ernsthafte Debatte uber die RIchtung der AuBenpolitik nach Bush ausgelost.
Should the United States Support Religious Education in the Islamic World?
The United States and its allies are involved in changing schooling in several Islamic countries, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also Pakistan and elsewhere. Specifically, the United States promotes and provides resources for changes in textbooks, teacher preparations, selection of school administrators, and general education policy.
Religion and the State: Why Moderate Religious Teaching Should Be Promoted
Should the US government and the international community actively promote religion overseas, especially in the Islamic world? Such an approach may seem wrong on all grounds. Religion is a major force driving jihadists in the Middle East, and separation of state and religion is one of the cornerstones of US democracy and the type of regime the United States promotes abroad.
Transnational Moral Dialogues
“Transnational Moral Dialogues.” After Terror, ed. Akbar Ahmed and Brian Forst. (Polity Press, 2005) pp. 79-84.
Transnational Moral Dialogues
Moral dialogs, social processes through which people form new shared moral understandings, occur not only within small communities, or even nation states, but also across national borders on a tran
Give Washington a Civilian Review Board
Trust in the Bush administration has fallen to such a low point that in order to restore at least some of it, we need a national civilian review board.
Zachte drang tegen Iran kan niet zonder stok
De eenzijdige verberking door Iran van de verzegeling van zijn fabrieken voor uranium verijking ropt ernstiege twijfel op over de Europe prging come de wereld re latern zein dat grotse conflictioen
Patriot Act is convenient target
A steady stream of revelations, and the ensuing news media reports, have portrayed a president hungry for power, doing whatever is necessary - legal or not - to protect this country.
Bad Lawyering
Those of us who study lawyers actually do know that most of them help resolve conflicts. They help clients to vent their anger-and realize that they do not have a case. They work out differences among contending parties, whether individuals, corporations or nations. In the public eye, though, lawyers are all from television's Boston Legal, fierce advocates of one side or the other, manipulating the evidence and pushing emotional buttons to win the day.
The Unique Methodology of Policy Research
POLICY research requires a profoundly different methodology from that on which basic research relies, because policy research is always dedicated to changing the world while basic research seeks to understand it as it is.' The notion that if one merely understands the world better, then one will in turn know how to better it, is not supported by the evidence.
Jewish, yet I say: 'Celebrate!'
For once the Christian right has come up with a good idea: Let's put Christ back into Christmas!
Von Fest - und Christbäumen
Wenigstens einman hat die christliche Rechte in Amerika eine gute Idee gehabit
From Right to Responsibility, the Definition of Sovereignty is Changing.
The idea that governments have a responsibility to protect their citizens is gaining momentum and may change the way sovereignty has been perceived for centuries.
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