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Sex Selective Abortions in India
There is an old folk song from Uttar Pradesh, India, which beseeches God to protect the supplicant from a monumental injustice. The mournful tune goes, “O, God, I beg of you, I touch your feet time and again/Next birth don’t give me a daughter, give me hell instead.” Faced with […]
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A New Front
The emergence of Boko Haram reflects the internal failures of Nigeria’s government
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Arab Shift
The Arab Spring uprisings have triggered notable shifts throughout republican Arab states. The story in the Gulf monarchies, however, is starkly different. The Gulf Monarchies are, for the most part, autocratic, hydrocarbon-rich states whose regimes derive legitimacy from tradition and an inflated ability to pacify populations through the distribution of […]
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North Korea’s Public Health Problem
International policy makers should keep in mind the dangers of ignoring the state of the Korean health system.