Word: agencyã
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...protect the rights of its individual members, especially those most disenfranchised by society. While a headscarf may be a harmless practice by itself, the broader context of Islam’s influence on Turkish society must be considered; and in that context, it represents an unfortunate constraint on female agency??one that the ban addressed in a limited but meaningful way. Its repeal, sadly, has marked an reversal of fortune not only for secularists, but for the women of Turkey...
...agency, since this is the only distinction that materially affects the general public. If a law enforcement agency, irrespective of who maintains it, is empowered by the state to hold police authority indiscriminately over all citizens of the state, then the citizenry should be entitled to review that agency??s application of its delegated powers. And when a law enforcement agency, even a private one, accepts public police privileges, common sense dictates that it must waive some measure of its legal autonomy. To argue otherwise, as the University has, is to subvert the importance of public oversight...
...reliance on threats and fear in the face of outside scrutiny is nothing new. By playing to popular anxiety, the Bush administration succeeded in authorizing the CIA’s current interrogation regime in 2002 without scrutiny from either side of the aisle. Knowledge of the Agency??s use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” has been widespread for months...
...20th century was concentrated in Central and Eastern Europe, Ferguson said the next fulcrum of violence will probably be the Middle East. All the ingredients for “megadeath” are there, he said. But Ferguson said that “the importance of human agency?? in starting wars should not be dismissed. In the question and answer session that followed, when multiple students asked him to predict the level of violence in the next few decades, Ferguson said that “there’s no such thing as the future—there...
Less than a week after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left a bemused and scornful audience at Columbia University, Iran’s parliament voted by a margin of 215 to declare the “aggressor U.S. army and the Central Intelligence Agency??terrorists [who] nurture terror.” Their reasoning might seem dubious—apparently based on the U.S.’s decision to drop atomic bombs 60 years ago—but the vote provides a unique opportunity for American introspection...