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CIAO DATE: 01/03
World Affairs
Vol. 6, Number 2 (April-June, 2002)
A Message from the Editor-In-Chief
Globalisation : A Focus
Is globalisation a panacea for the world? This is a question many people around the world are trying to answer. For, with it are seen several ills. While as an idea globalisation seems an ideal solution for the world, in practice this does not seem so. Whereas earlier the world was divided between the two super powers and rest of the world, it has now become the rich versus the poor. In fact, it seems we are living in an unequal world today.
Edward Goldsmith feels that the Western model of development does not suit the rest of the world as it destroys domestic economies and pushes the developing world into the abysses of debt.
Globalisation: Old Wine Into New Bottles?
Ismail Shariff And David M Littig wonder whether globalisation is another name for colonisation which favours the rich and the powerful. It is not based on equality but tilted in favour of the West.
Globalisation and the Language Of Modernisation
David Ekbladh discuss the various meaning and implications of globalisation. It is often considered an extension of the meaning of modernisation.
Inequality in the Global Village: The Future Ahead
Akhilesh Chandra Prabhakar discusses the widening gap between the rich and poor in a globalised world. The developed world/West seems to be taking an advantage of the developing world/East and gaining enormously in terms of wealth.
Catalysing Graduated Modernisation Through Diplomacy
Jagat S Mehta goes to show the importance of building bridges between countries, which should be the key factor in today’s world of globalisation. Only a statesmen like Pandit Nehru could be so far ahead of his timing and makes a special effort to extend the hand of warmth and friendship to an otherwise considered ‘closed’ country like Bhutan.
Articles
September 11 Events and the Resulting Global Situation
Côme Carpentier de Gourdon believes that the background to the September 11 incident which took place last year is far more complicated and dangerous than an ‘ordinary’ terrorist attack. He reveals the complicated relationship between the American President the Saudi Arabia royalty and the Bin Laden family.
Nuclear Pakistan and Israel
P R Kumaraswamy talks of the unstated understanding between Pakistan and Israel in spite of no diplomatic relations between them. After the nuclear tests Israel has been watching Pakistan more closely and developing friendlier contacts with them.
Review Essay
Of Man’s Inhumanity to Man
Shashi Tharoo reviews through five titles the cruelty and inhumanity shown by man towards man throughout history and how human rights groups can be a deterrent towards this.
Reviews
| Ajoy Bagchi | Ian Cardozo |
| Ranjana Kaul | René Wadlow |
Documents
Text of the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions, Moscow, May 24, 2002
Keynote address of Murasoli Maran, Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, India, at the Annual Conference on Development Economics of the World Bank, Oslo, June 24, 2002
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