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What Is the N.E.D.’s Mission?

October 21, 2021 issue

Ortega in His Labyrinth

Nicaragua’s president has created an insular dynastic tyranny that eerily resembles the one against which he fought decades ago.

Déjà Vu: Somoza-Ortega

by Avil A. Ramírez

El Preso 198: Un Perfil de Daniel Ortega [Prisoner 198: A Portrait of Daniel Ortega]

by Fabián Medina Sánchez

September 23, 2021 issue

Letter

Christine Bednarz

What Is the N.E.D.’s Mission?

October 21, 2021 issue

The Kaibiles, a special counterinsurgency force of the Guatemalan army that has been accused of human rights violations, Guatemala City, 1988

Glimmers of Hope in Guatemala

From Silence to Memory: Revelations of the Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional

with a foreword by Carlos Aguirre and a preface by Kate Doyle

December 5, 2013 issue

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and top military commanders at the mausoleum of Kemal Ataturk after the military's annual meeting, August 1, 2011, Ankara, Turkey

A New Direction for Turkey's Democracy?

My report from Turkey in the current *New York Review of Books* asserts that civilian power in that country has “emerged from the shadow of military power, a breakthrough of historic proportions.” The July 29 resignation of Turkey’s four top military commanders was a capitulation to that reality. It is likely to lead to something Turkey has never known: civilian control of the military.

August 3, 2011

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Emine at a campaign rally in Istanbul, June 11, 2011

Triumphant Turkey?

Politically Turkey has changed more in the last ten years than it did in the previous eighty.

Turkey and the Dilemma of EU Accession: When Religion Meets Politics

by Mirela Bogdani

The Mobilization of Political Islam in Turkey

by Banu Eligur

Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity: A History, 1789–2007

by Carter Vaughn Findley

Streets of Memory: Landscape, Tolerance, and National Identity in Istanbul

by Amy Mills

August 18, 2011 issue

Life Under the Ortegas

June 12, 2008 issue

Rwanda: An Exchange

May 31, 2007 issue

Big Gamble in Rwanda

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

by Roméo Dallaire, with a foreword by Samantha Power

The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide

by Gérard Prunier

Imagined Olympians: Body Culture and Colonial Representation in Rwanda

by John Bale

Silent Accomplice: The Untold Story of France's Role in Rwandan Genocide

by Andrew Wallis

An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography

by Paul Rusesabagina with Tom Zoellner

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March 29, 2007 issue

Exchange

Elliott Green

Rwanda: An Exchange

May 31, 2007 issue

The Trouble with Costa Rica

The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics

edited by Steven Palmer and Iván Molina

Foreign Investment, Development, and Globalization: Can Costa Rica Become Ireland?

by Eva Paus

La Miel de los Mudos, y Otros Cuentos Ticos de Ciencia Ficción

by Iván Molina Jiménez

June 8, 2006 issue

Kurds in Turkey: The Big Change

The Kurds in Turkey: EU Accession and Human Rights

by Kerim Yildiz, with a foreword by Noam Chomsky

Spoils of War: The Human Cost of America's Arms Trade

by John Tirman

The Turks Today

by Andrew Mango

Voices from the Front: Turkish Soldiers on the War with the Kurdish Guerrillas

by Nadire Mater, translated from the Turkish by Ayse Gul Altinay, with a foreword by Cynthia Enloe

January 12, 2006 issue

Clouds Over Iran

In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran

by Christopher de Bellaigue

March 24, 2005 issue

Will Turkey Make It?

July 15, 2004 issue

Downfall in Nicaragua

July 17, 2003 issue

Love in a Time of Revolution

The Country Under My Skin: A Memory of Love and War

by Gioconda Belli, translated from the Spanish by Kristina Cordero with the author

November 21, 2002 issue

An Exchange on John Negroponte

October 18, 2001 issue

Our Man in Honduras

September 20, 2001 issue

Country Without Heroes

July 19, 2001 issue

Guatemala: The Unfinished Peace

Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala's Peace Process

Susanne Jonas

Los Difíciles Senderos de la Paz en Guatemala

Gudrun Molkentin

Memoria Verdad y Esperanza: Version Popular del Informe Guatemala: Nunca Más

a report by the Archbishopric of Guatemala

El Guerrillero y el General: Rodrigo Asturias y Julio Balconi Sobre la Guerra y la Paz en Guatemala

Dirk Kruijt and Rudie Van Meurs

El Drama de la Pobreza en Guatemala: Sus Rasgos y Efectos Sobre la Sociedad

a report by the government of the Republic of Guatemala

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June 21, 2001 issue

Self-Portrait of a Revolutionary

The Patient Impatience: from boyhood to guerrilla: a personal narrative of Nicaragua's struggle for liberation

by Tomás Borge

December 3, 1992 issue