Recent Articles
MAR 4, 2004 • Article
Feature Articles from Inprint Newsletter (2001–2004): Response to "Promoting Democracy in a Divided World"
Omar Noman takes issue with several of Andrew Kuper's ideas on promoting democracy.
MAR 4, 2004 • Article
Feature Articles from Inprint Newsletter (2001–2004): From Andrew Carnegie to Hans Morgenthau
Carnegie and Morgenthau make an instructive pair, explains Council President Joel Rosenthal. Carnegie, an idealist, stood for "never again war," while Morgenthau stood for "never ...
MAR 2, 2004 • Article
Feature Articles from Inprint Newsletter (2001–2004): Fighting for the Environment -- and Getting Democracy
"I [spoke] with a Chinese environmentalist who was a high school student at the time of Tiananmen. He said he had watched the democracy demonstrations ...
MAR 1, 2004 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Anne Matthews, "Wild Nights: Nature Returns to the City"
This is an environmental jeremiad with a difference. No complaining here, no direct appeal for a harmony between humankind and nature. Matthews’s eye is ...
FEB 17, 2004 • Article
Historical Memory and the Building of Democracy in Iraq
Report of an 2/17/04 "Beyond History and Memory" seminar, a series cosponsored by the Council's History and the Politics of Reconciliation Program and Columbia University.
FEB 2, 2004 • Article
Desolation and Enlightenment--History or Memory?
The "desolation" of the 20th century--the total war of the two World Wars, the totalitarian regimes of both the right and left, and the Holocaust--has ...
JAN 27, 2004 • Article
Multilateral Strategies to Promote Democracy
A panel of high-level peers meet at the Council to discuss multilateral strategies for democracy promotion. Impatient with the usual critique, they begin with two ...
JAN 1, 2004 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Stephen Jay Gould, "Rocks of Ages. --The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox"
It seems a good idea to distinguish science and religion as two separate, mutually non-interfering teaching authorities. Popular science writer Stephan Jay Gould (1941-2002) suggested ...
JAN 1, 2004 • Article
Feature Articles from Inprint Newsletter (2001–2004): Promoting Democracy in a Divided World
Democracies survive if per capita GDP surpasses $6,000, but developing countries have little chance of crossing this threshold. To make democracy work in such contexts, ...
DEC 19, 2003 • Article
Feature Articles from Inprint Newsletter (2001–2004): Response to “Searching for a New Iraqi Identity”
Elizabeth Cole's editorial shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the aims of the Iraq Memory Foundation. While she is right in asserting that "deciding on the ...