January 1997

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LONDON– We should indeed “cry for Argentina,” in fact for all of Latin America, when the news, apparently imminent, is announced that the Clinton administration has decided to remove long-standing U.S. restrictions on selling high-tech weapons to South American countries. Just at the moment that South America, after years of slithering and sliding, has finally got itself out of the mud of economic malaise, its spendthrift generals supposedly relegated to the outer fringes of decision making, this change in American policy could throw the balance of power between civilian and military in exactly the wrong direction. The last thing the generals need to be tempted by are expensive items of once forbidden fruit. Take Argentina–although only in degree is it possessor of a worse record in destabilising military interference than its neighbours. The last time western arms salesmen were regularly satisfying every whim of South American generals the country picked a...
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LONDON– Perhaps there is an important political moral in the tale of the American baloonist, Steve Fossett, who earlier this week had to cut short his attempt to fly around the world, running out of fuel over India after being forced to detour Libyan airspace–that attempts to isolate so-called “rogue-regimes” can, if allowed to fester unresolved for too long, curdle all sense of proportion, by both perpetrator and object alike. If the Libyan regime has looked at this high flying baloon with ridiculously sour eyes then the U.S. and its western allies are also at fault for seeing Libya and other rogue states, Iran, Cuba, North Korea and Iraq as irredeemably outcast, not as manageable problems but as all-consuming threats. This is really to overdo it. All are basket-case economies. All are diplomatically isolated. All are bordered by states possessing great military potential. As the editor of Foreign Policy, Charles Maynes,...
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Demonstrationer, musik, gadeteater, appeller, humor, bilkorteger, telefonblokader, international sympati, brug af Internet og andre massemedier, titusinder af udholdne borgere — nogle af ikkevoldens klassiske våben er i brug. Det er første gang siden borgerkrigene brød ud. Serbien, de facto den eneste multietniske republik, blev dermed den første i hvilket det civile samfund trængte igennem. At indvider tror på at det betyder noget hvad de gør som samfundsmedborgere, at de tror på at det betyder noget at de tager standpunkter, selv kæmper for dem — og ikke blot beder en repræsentant herom — og gør det uden vold er grundforsætninger for det ægte demokrati, som forresten er på retur rundt om i verden og erstattet af demokrati som teknologi og eksportvare. Engang, men altså ikke længere, var det kontroversielt at sige at det såkaldt internationale samfund håndterede den jugoslaviske konflikt helt galt. Een årsag var troen på at konflikter blir løste...
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IntroductionInterestingly, when the current state of the Gandhian legacy is discussed, the examples tend not to come from India. And this appears to be not merely a cultural misappropriation – Indian Gandhians will often say to foreign inquirers that Gandhi has been forgotten in India, that he is being re-imported from the West. In these conversations names such as that of Attenborough and Schumacher loom large. But there are still a great many dedicated Gandhians carrying on the work of the Mahatma in Bharat and in any discussion about the position of Gandhi today it would be instructive to examine their perspective. The Gandhians do not necessarily speak with one voice. The differences, over and above those of individual characteristics, often depend on the ideology of the individual, whether his or her world view has been coloured more by Vinoba Bhave or Jayaprakash Narayan, and whether they believe that the...
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No 29 (Nov 27, 1997)Conflict and Reconciliation in the Schools in Eastern Slavonia,Croatia. The UN Is Needed There In the Future No 28 (Oct 28, 1997)Post-War Reconciliation – Who’s Got A Clue? No 26 (Sept 18, 1997)The Conflict Consortium – New Publication No 25 (Sept 10, 1997)Bosnia’s Foreign Elections – Unwise and Dangerous No 24 (Aug 1997)Help Serbs and Albanians Settle Their Differences in Kosovo ! No 23 (Juli 26, 1997)Efter Kriget? Sören Sommelius på TFF Internet Forum No 22 (April 24, 1997)Free Elections, But For Whom? No 20 (Feb 7, 1997)Brcko Arbitration Is No Solution