Recent Articles
MAR 2, 2004 • Article
Morgenthau Lecture: The Future of Humanitarianism
Doctors Without Borders co-founder Bernard Kouchner says the globalization of human rights is a sign of moral progress with successes in Kosovo and East Timor.
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 ...
DEC 8, 2003 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: David Sloan Wilson, "Darwin's Cathedral"
Religion, I think most of us would say, isn't about much if it isn't about belief in a personal God... Religion is founded on the ...