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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 countrys 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 Irans Shiite Islamic Republic into an Islamic Democratic Republic. Khatamis recent victory with over 76 per cent votes could see Irans emergence as a new polestar in the galaxy of human values, particularly in the Islamic world.
Reviews
Moonis Ahmar
J C Kapur
Nandan Maluste
Documents
Iran-India, Tehran Declaration, April 10, 2001
Address by Mr Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of Republic of
France, on The Future of an Enlarged Europe,
Paris, May 28, 2001
Address by General Pervez Musharraf, Chief Executive,
Islamic Republic of Pakistan, at the 25th National Seerat
Conference, June 5, 2000
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