Message-ID: <34FC08A7.8EDF5928@gusun.georgetown.edu> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:42:01 -0500 From: Martin Sieg <mailto:siegm@GUSUN.GEORGETOWN.EDU> Subject: [Fwd: Interesting book] To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Have any of you read this or anything about this book?It looks very interesting and relevant, but some input from some of the 'expertss' on these lists will be very helpful.
Thank you.
Sara K. Brown wrote:
> Hi all --
>
> I just picked up what looks to be a very interesting book. It's
> called _The Changing Global Order: World Leaders Reflect_, ed.
> Nathan Gardels (1997). The contributions and interviews in this book
> are compiled from the Global Viewpoint column of _New
> Perspectives Quarterly_ .
>
> Full Table of Contents..
>
> Forward by Zbigniew Brzezinski
> Preface by Gardels
> Part I -- The Parted Paths of Postcolonialism
> One World, Two Civilizations -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
> State, Father, and God in the South -- Mahmoud Hussein
> God Is Not a Head of State -- Jean Daniel
> Islam's Second Awakening -- Hassan al-Turabi
> When Allah Meets Galileo -- Farida Faouzia Charfi
> God and the Politcal Planet -- Regis Debray
> Islam: Postman of Civilization -- Haris Silajdzic
> Recolonize Africa? -- Ali Mazrui
> Does Africa Matter? -- Yoweri Museveni
> Leaving History Behind in Latin America -- Alejandro Foxley
> Torture Without Inflation -- Mario Vargas Llosa
> From Mosque to Multimedia: Hollywood, Islam, and the Digital Age in
> Asia -- Mahathir Mohamad
> China Can Say No to America -- Zhang Xiaobo and Song Qiang
> America Is No Longer Asia's Model -- Lee Kuan Yew
>
> Part II -- Defrosting the Old Order
> What Did We End the Cold War For? Thatcher, Gorbachev, Mitterand, Bush
> The Great Criminal Revolution -- Anatoly Lukyanov
> Russia's Pink Clouds of Utopia -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
> MTV and NATO Under Postcommunism -- Aleksandr Kwasniewski
> Victorious West, Humiliated Russia -- Alexander Lebed
> (Very Recent) History Has Absolved Socialism - Fidel Castro
> Why UN Peacekeeping Failed in Bosnia -- Kofi Annan
>
> Part III -- Population, Migrants, and Megacities
> Full House: the Shadow of Global Scarcity - Lester Brown
> Consumer Society is the Enemy -- Jacques Cousteau
> Overpopulation Tilts the Planet -- Paul Kennedy
> Women as the Earth's Last Hope -- Nafiz Sadik
> Poor Girls -- Benazir Bhutto
> Global Inequality: 358 Billionaires vs. 2.3 Billion People --
> James Gustave Speth
> The Past is Too Small to Inhabit -- Rem Koolhaas
> Asia's Urban Century -- George Yeo
> Immigrants as Postmodern Prophets -- Richard Rodriguez
>
> Part IV -- Globalization and Empires of the Mind
> The Culture of Prosperity -- Francis Fukuyama
> Bypassing the State in Asia -- Chai-Anan Samudavanija
> China's 600,000 Avon Ladies -- Kenichi Ohmae
> Planetized Entertainment -- Michael Eisner
> Resisting the Colonels of Disney -- Costa-Gavras
> A Democratic Media Market -- Bill Gates
> Singapore: Post-Liberal City of the Future -- Nathan Gardels
>
> Part V -- Terror, Democracy, and Peace after the Cold War
> Old Fanaticism, Modern Weapons - Shimon Peres
> Third Wave Terrorism Rides the Tokyo Subway -- Alvin Toffler
> Trading in the Apocolypse -- Jacques Attali
> Deng's Legacy : A China Consumed by Chaos -- Fang Lizhi
> Democracy is Asian As Well -- Aung San Suu Kyi
> A Pluralist Path in the Arab World -- King Hussein
> Why Separate States? -- Benjamin Netanyahu
>
> Happy reading!
>
> Sara