How China's New Leaders Think

The return of the Middle Kingdom to the center stage of history is the most significant geo‐civilizaitonal development of the 21st Century. China's rise raises anew the great question, thought settled after the Cold War, of what system of governance will stand on the right or wrong side of history. In this section the leading ideologists of the China model and its “peaceful rise” appear alongside the fiercest critics of China's way.     

The Zero Nukes Conundrum

We have learned from the sacking of the Alexandrian Library in 415 ad or the mysterious demise of the Maya that knowledge can be inadvertently lost to all time through chaos and battle. But can knowledge be lost on purpose?     

From Vietnam to Kosovo: Is The Diet-Coke Generation Ready for the Real Thing?

If Vietnam was a proxy war with Soviet communism , Kosovo is a proxy war with the Holocaust . Kosovo tests all the hallowed rhetoric of the West about self -determination, multiethnic pluralism, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the rule of law . Failure in Kosovo would therefore be a failure of the very idea of the West . More than any other single event, the battle over Kosovo will thus define the West, and particularly Europe, at the turn of the century . That this is a war in Europe for Europe sets it apart from all the other tragedies globally, from Rwanda to Kashmir .