From: openDemocracy [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 30 May 2003 13:40
To: j.armitage
Subject: The Bush doctrine: right or wrong?
SUMMARY
The war on Iraq reinforced a core truth of the new century: the United
States's sense of its national interest affects the whole world. But what do
Americans themselves make of their administration's new national security
strategy? In this edition of www.opendemocracy.net we launch a passionate
debate that will involve some of America's - and the world's - most
influential thinkers.
To begin, Charles Pena argues that Bush's attempt to secure American
domestic security through international action is deeply flawed; Philip
Bobbitt, by contrast, thinks that the dangers of weapons proliferation and
terrorism require the US's global engagement.
Plus: an Israeli view of the roadmap, new fiction from Kenya, a cybernetic
view of free-market ideology, two diaries from Israel/Palestine, and our own
Caspar Henderson all at sea in the Arctic.
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The Bush Doctrine - right or wrong?
WORLD OR HOMELAND? US NATIONAL SECURITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
The Bush administration's commitment to worldwide military intervention in
pursuit of democracy is dangerous, draining, and self-defeating, says
CHARLES PENA, director of defense policy at the Cato Institute.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-98-1242.jsp
AMERICAN SECURITY FOR A NEW WORLD: A REPLY TO CHARLES PENA
Charles Pena recommends a disengagement from the world that would entail
even greater danger for the homeland, says PHILIP BOBBITT, former advisor to
Bill Clinton
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-98-1243.jsp
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PEOPLE FLOW: MIGRATION IN EUROPE
Two fresh voices join our debate. Author of 'Race, culture and difference'
ALI RATTANSI deconstructs the hidden language of race underpinning Anthony
Browne's argument, and CEM OZDEMIR, the first parliamentary representative
in the Bundestag of Turkish descent, asks whether Germany can achieve a
working multiculturalism.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-10-96-1254.jsp
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-10-96-1255.jsp
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Israel/Palestine - Old Roads New Maps
AN ISRAELI VIEW: START WITH TWO SEPARATE ROADMAPS
Can the roadmap succeed? Only if each side separately, and boldly, acts to
follow its own path away from violence - and thus find itself on a shared
'road' further down the line, says YOSSI ALPHER.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-97-1247.jsp
Views of the conflict from ANN JUNGMANN and TOM KAY
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-46-1253.jsp
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-33-1246.jsp
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Africa
BEFORE THE ROOSTER CROWS
PETER KIMANI'S first novel is a harrowing tale of a young man's odyssey
through African inequality where prostitution, murder, racism and the deep
wounds of colonialism still fester. openDemocracy presents an exclusive
extract.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-1-66-1251.jsp
ZIMBABWE: PEOPLE GET READY
Political repression and economic meltdown are pushing Zimbabwe's people to
breaking-point, says human rights activist MARY NDLOVU.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-3-53-1245.jsp
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A World Of Ideas
THE ROUTE TO CAPE FAREWELL: AN ARCTIC DIARY
For two weeks Globalisation editor, CASPAR HENDERSON, is posting regularly
from on board the 93-year old ship Noorderlicht - sailing to the Arctic.
This innovative expedition fuses art, film and science to monitor and
communicate the impact of global warming.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-6-1244.jsp
IDENTITY & TELEVISION: EUROPE ON SCREEN
The EU's Television without Frontiers Directive sought to encourage the free
movement of programming within the internal European market. But at its
heart are questionable assumptions about the desirability of a single,
shared European culture, argues RICHARD COLLINS
http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-8-1252.jsp
MARKET FUNDAMENTALISM
The market economy and fundamentalist religion are alike in their search for
total mind control. President of the American Society of Cybernetics,
ALLENNA LEONARD, advocates systems thinking as a route to liberation.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-95-1248.jsp
TRANSLATING THE WORD OF GOD
The translating of the King James Bible in 1604 was that rare thing, says
DOUGLAS MURRAY: an act of genius, even of the divine, produced by a
committee.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-1-66-1257.jsp
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Columns
World Diary: Rummy's intelligence review
DOMINIC HILTON on US credibility, Hu's globetrotting, Rwanda's new era?
http://www.opendemocracy.net/other_content/article-1256-worlddiary.jsp
PAUL ROGERS: The Iraqi calculus
http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-2-1249.jsp
BREAD & CIRCUSES: DOMINIC HILTON on the neo-neo-democrats
http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-1-1241.jsp
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