From: openDemocracy [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 9:35 AM
To: john.armitage
Subject: Europe and Russia
What is Europe for? As EU leaders meet for a historic gathering at Laeken=,
we launch Purpose Europa in http://www.opendemocracy.net with three
contrasting answers.
Manuel Castells outlines his network vision. Our strand co-editor Frank
Vibert calls instead for simplicity and Riccardo Perissich says it is
outcomes that matter:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=113&DocID=894
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=113&DocID=898
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=113&DocID=900
After a decade of despair Europe's great neighbour, Russia, is starting to
feel good about herself. Susan Richards, openDemocracy's senior editor,
sensed change on her recent visit:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=18&DocID=896
Through a series of impassioned etchings and words, Russian artist Maxim
Kantor explores his country's tortured relationship with Europe:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=18&DocID=915
Donald Fanger praises Leonid Tsypkin's extraordinary book about Fyodor
Dostoevsky and his bride:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=44&DocID=902
From Pakistan, Beena Sarwar depicts a media cautiously exploring new
freedoms as a benign side-effect of the war:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=5&DocID=901
Paul Rogers continues his tremendous weekly summaries of the conflict, and
maps the dramatic expansion of American power:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=103&DocID=889
Miroslav Pospisil joins the transport debate with a lyrical evocation of the
Czech countryside, and shows how 'tourism without travel' is possible:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=4&DocID=892
Dominic Hilton's latest Mighty Acorn tells the inside story of the '60s from
one who was here, there, and everywhere - and remembers it all:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=102&DocID=905
Next week's update will include Todd Gitlin on Bob Dylan and other delights.
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