CIAO DATE: 10/00

World Affairs

Vol. 3, Number 4 (Oct.–Dec. 1999)

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• Letter from the Editor

 

Interview:

• The European Union: New Perspectives and New Challenges
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  In an exclusive interview to World Affairs Kimmo Sasi, Finland's Minister for Foreign Trade highlights the broad evolution of the European Union and the tasks ahead..

 

Comment:

• European Union in a Changing World

  The post-cold war era has accelerated the process of European integration and has generated a search for common security and foreign policies. Catherine Guisan-Dickinson, Georg Wiessala, and Constantine A Stephanou have analysed some of the facets of this process.

 

Articles:

• Seed — The Mother of All Life
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  The advances made by some multinationals in agricultural biotechnology and "genetic engineering" could have adverse effects on Indian agriculture, argues Mary C Carras.

• The American Imperium on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century Realities and Trends

  On the threshold of the new millennium, the United States is preparing for a domineering role, both externally and internally, writes Côme Carpentier de Gourdon..

• A New World Order in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Mongolian Perspective

  Mongolia has rapidly adapted itself to the post-cold war era by designing new, independent, internal and external policies, observes D Bayarkhuu.

 

Review Essay:

• The Year of the Hare: New Light on the Anti-Diem Coup, by Ton That Thien
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Text and Documents:

1. European Union Declaration on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, October 11, 1999