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Reason
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Look Who's Rocking the Casbah The revolutionary implications of Arab music videos   |
Reason
October 2000
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Rage On The strange politics of millionaire rock stars... |
Parameters
Autumn 2005
Harvey, Sullivan & Groves |
A Clash of Systems: An Analytical Framework to Demystify the Radical Islamist Threat The United States must understand the implications of its leadership in the global system, and how to use this position to demonstrate to moderates in the Islamic world why they should join us rather than attempt to beat us. |
Reason
June 2000
Charles Paul Freund |
After the Fall Hollywood's daily work addresses the desires and fantasies that have reshaped the West and that are now remaking the rest of the world. That Hollywood cannot find a narrative about the foundation of its own wealth, power, and influence is perhaps the West's most bizarre cultural paradox. |
Reason
August 2003
Nick Gillespie |
Really Creative Destruction Economist Tyler Cowen argues for the cultural benefits of globalization |
Salon.com
September 24, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Terror's first victims When fanatics like the Taliban seize control of Islamic countries, women are the first to suffer... |
Parameters
Autumn 2005
Chris Zambelis |
The Strategic Implications of Political Liberalization and Democratization in the Middle East Promoting democracy in the Middle East will mark a positive shift in American foreign policy if and when Washington decides to back up its rhetoric with action. |
Reason
April 2001
Charles Paul Freund |
Artifact: Shear Anxiety Haircut cops in Kabul rounded up a few dozen of the city's barbers in January, charging them with turning men into Leonardo DiCaprio wannabes. That's a serious matter in Afghanistan, because its extremist religious rulers, the Taliban, regard most foreign haircuts as "anti-Islamic"... |
Outside
December 2003
Patrick Symmes |
The Kabul Express In the sixties and seventies it was the hippie trail that brought foreigners to Afghanistan. Two decades of war and terror later, Kabul is a nonstop rave of C-130s, NGOs, soldiers, and spooky nation-builders. The freaks are back on Chicken Street -- where everything old is new again. |
Salon.com
May 13, 2002
Laura Miller |
Death rattle? Sept. 11 may have been the last gasp of militant Islam -- but while it's dying, it could strike again and again... |
Parameters
Summer 2007
Patrick Porter |
Good Anthropology, Bad History: The Cultural Turn in Studying War To wage war, become an anthropologist. Today's military confrontation of "the West vs. the rest" replays ancient differences between strategic cultures. |
Salon.com
December 17, 2001
Tamim Ansary |
Leaping to conclusions Well-meaning observers are making dangerous assumptions about Afghan women and their goals for the future... |
Salon.com
September 27, 2001
Steve Kettmann |
Creating "many, many Osamas" Novelist William Vollmann says if the U.S. convinces Afghans of bin Laden's guilt, they'll support the move against him. If not, only "genocide" will defeat them... |
Wired
October 20, 2008
Scott Carney |
The Godfather of Bangalore City officials in Bangalore, India struggle to reconcile the gleaming promise of the information economy with the gritty reality of systemic corruption in the justice system. |
Salon.com
September 22, 2001
Ken Silverstein |
Blasts from the past The weaponry the Taliban could turn on us may be our own, the relics of a $7 billion Cold War campaign... |
ifeminists
November 2, 2005
Wendy McElroy |
Preserving Culture, or Curtailing Freedom? The Convention on Cultural Diversity (CCD) may be more about trade than culture. Some argue that its vagueness is actually a bargaining chip to be used against the U.S. during upcoming talks at the WTO. But far more is at stake than economics. |
Salon.com
September 19, 2001
Laura Miller |
The "enemy" we barely know A writer who has traveled extensively in Afghanistan talks about how little we understand its people, how dangerous it is to underestimate them and why they have cause to resent the U.S.... |
