CIAO DATE: 08/01

World Affairs

Vol. 5, Number 2 (April-June, 2001)

 

Interview

The Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Union of Myanmar, U Win Aung discusses the developing linkages with its neighbouring countries. He also deals with efforts to move Myanmar towards multiparty democratic processes and the country’s emerging relationship with the wider human family.

 

Focus

While an aggressive push on globalisation continues, so does rising concern about the waywardness of the globalising process. The authors Prem Shankar Jha , Hazel Henderson, Terry Mollner, Gilbert Etienne and Mihaly Simai trace the contours of the shifting paradigm and developing compulsions within the political-economic systems and also discuss retrieval strategies.

 

Articles

Côme Carpentier de Gourdon discusses how the problem of corruption with its underlying desacralised ideology of materialistic greed has rendered the ailing military security system quite obsolete. Collective security of the world has acquired new dimensions calling for a response that is radically new.

Ramin Jahanbegloo gives an historical overview of the ideological travails of transforming Iran’s Shi’ite Islamic Republic into an Islamic Democratic Republic. Khatami’s recent victory with over 76 per cent votes could see Iran’s emergence as a new polestar in the galaxy of human values, particularly in the Islamic world.

 

Reviews

 

Documents

  1. Iran-India, Tehran Declaration, April 10, 2001

  2. Address by Mr Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of Republic of
    France, on The Future of an Enlarged Europe,
    Paris, May 28, 2001

  3. Address by General Pervez Musharraf, Chief Executive,
    Islamic Republic of Pakistan, at the 25th National Seerat
    Conference, June 5, 2000

 

Contributors

 

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