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Water Technologies

Case Study: What Works Best in Poor Countries?

  • Michael Kremer
  • Edward Miguel
  • Clair Null
  • Alix Zwane

Breakout

Hamas and the end of the two-state solution.

  • Helena Cobban

The Unending War

On Argentina’s quest for justice.

  • Sam Ferguson

Al Qaeda in Lebanon

The Iraq War spreads.

  • Nir Rosen

Pious Populist

Understanding the rise of Iran’s president.

  • Abbas Milani

Half a Man

Gender apartheid in Iran.

  • Akbar Ganji

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Left Behind

Romanticizing Germany's Urban Guerillas

  • Paul Hockenos

Within Reach of the State

Though both the victims and perpetrators of human rights violations on African soil have been Africans, the pursuit of justice has been conducted largely by international institutions.

  • Owen Fiss

Massive crimes are never simply domestic

They cross borders and affect other states.

  • Luis Moreno-Ocampo

The Slave Trade on Trial

Lessons of a great human rights–law success.

  • Jenny S. Martinez

No Going Back

Little relief in sight for millions of displaced Iraqis.

  • Nir Rosen

Back to the Future

On Israel’s existential crisis.

  • Robert Blecher
  • Jeremy Pressman

In the Sweep of History

Where realists and progressives can meet.

  • Anatol Lieven

Brazil’s Dreamer

The disenchantment and re-enchantment of Chico Buarque.

  • Scott Saul

The View from Tehran

Changing Iran from within.

  • Akbar Ganji

Nuclear Freeze

The Middle East and global arms control.

  • Hans Blix

Carrots and Sticks

Remarks from the U.S. Under Secretary of State.

  • R. Nicholas Burns

A Third Way

Normalizing relations will help Iran and the United States.

  • Michael McFaul
  • Abbas Milani

Revolution

The Islamist challenge to secular Bangladesh.

  • Nicholas Schmidle

Days of Lies and Roses

Selling out Afghanistan

  • Sarah Chayes

Homeland

The new generation of Nigerian writers.

  • Andrée Greene

Inequality Matters

Why globalization doesn’t lift all boats.

  • Nancy Birdsall

Inside the Machine

Toward a new development economics.

  • Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee

Delivering Health Care

A case study on Cambodia

  • Michael Kremer
  • David Clingingsmith
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