Emphasis, as always, added.
Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pieces (6/13)
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Europe & Central Asia
From the Spanish Civil War to Syria: Parceling Out Truth Subverts Justice
All of us practice a partial vision some extent.
When Will the Dirty Wars End?
Jeremy Scahill’s Dirty Wars details the growing use of extrajudicial assassinations by the U.S. executive branch to strike at targets around the planet, without any declaration of war or meaningful congressional oversight. And it documents the human toll of such unchecked power by featuring some of the innocent victims of this global war.
Slovenia and Bulgaria: a Tale of Two Reforms
Slovenia has virtually vaulted into Western Europe while Bulgaria has remained behind the informal Iron Curtain that continues to divide the developed from the developing parts of the region.
Hungary: A Cancer in the Middle of Europe
Something is dreadfully wrong with Hungary. Worse, what’s wrong with Hungary is not unique in Europe. What’s eating away at a free society in Hungary has metastasized. This same cancer is present elsewhere on the continent, even if it hasn’t come to the attention of diagnosticians.
Erdogan’s Iron Fist
The over three million participating protesters represent a wide spectrum of ideologies, walks of life, and religious sects.
Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Divorce
Czechs miss Slovaks, but not the other way around.
Erdogan Goes All Robert Moses on Istanbul
A prime minister rampages across Istanbul’s landscape.
Foreign Aid Is Afghanistan’s Resource Curse
Afghanistan, which manages to generate only about $2 billion per year of its own revenues and depends on international donors for the rest of its budget, suffers from a kind of resource curse. With plenty of cash and no accountability to citizens—as well as minimal oversight by donors—Afghan officials are free to rip off donor resources and ignore or extort their fellow citizens with relative impunity.
Restoring Slovenia’s Erased
The Erasure took place in 1992, the first organization of the Erased was founded in 2002, and victory was secured in 2012.