CIAO DATE: 03/01

World Affairs

Vol. 4, Number 3 (Sept. 2000)

• Letter from the Executive Editor

 

Interview:

• China In a Changing World
  

  In an exclusive interview with World Affairs, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of The People's Republic of China, Tang Jiaxuan, provides an insight into some of the major foreign policy issues facing his country.

 

Comment:

• Oil, Energy and the Environment

  While Peter Bunyard, Fadhil J Chalabi, Hewson Baltzell and Pierre Terzian agree that the growth demand for oil has diminished, concern has increased over the rampancy of pollution.

 

Articles:

• The Sino-Indian Border: A Scenario For Settling This Vexatious Issue
  

  Neville Maxwell sketches a scenario in which a paradigm shift, on the part of India, accompanied by mutual trust and cooperation are prerequisites for the resolution of the long-standing border dispute between India and China.

• Whither The European Union?
  

  Côme Carpentier De Gourdon is of the opinion that the grand vision of a unified Europe is ridden with uncertainties as centrifugal tendencies and external pressures bear down on the unification process.

• The "Great Game" Continued
  

  Major changes are underway in Central Asia and its adjacent regions with new centres of power developing and new alliances being forged as the "Great Game" continues between world players, notes Rahul Peter Das.

 

Review Essay:

• Ethnicity, State Aan Nation: Differing Perspectives
  

  Maya Chadda examines the relevance to South Asia of the themes that have dominated the international debate in recent years: growing ethnic resurgence and the interface between culture and state.

 

Reviews:

• Krishna Ahooja-Patel       Biljana Scott

• Harish Kapur       Norman Scott

• Saira Mohamed       René Wadlow

• Kishan S Rana      

 

Documents:

1. Address by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to the Joint Session of the United States Congress, Washington DC, September 14, 2000

2. Remarks by Hugo Chávez Frías President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela at the Opening of the International Seminar, New World Trends and the Future of Oil and Energy, Caracas, June 13, 2000

3. EU-India Summit, Joint Declaration, Lisbon, June 28, 2000

4. G7 and G8 Statement, Okinawa, July 21, 2000