Contemporary Review articles

Recent articles from Contemporary Review

The limits of expansion: the European union and NATO.(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
December 22, 2008... BIG is not necessarily beautiful, but the current agendas of both the European Union and NATO is one of steady aggrandizement. The more members each can take, it would seem, the better. Both institutions have come to be seen as two sides of the same coin, linked by historical circumstance and...

Martin Buber: philosopher and visionary.(Biography)
December 22, 2008... Editor's Note: In November the German Education Minister Or Annette Schavan, on an official visit to Israel to mark the country's sixtieth anniversary, announced that the German government would fund a new Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the Hebrew University of...

Wole Soyinka on Nigeria.(You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir. Wole Soyinka. Methuen. [pounds sterling]19.99. xx + 626 pages. ISBN 978-0-413-77628-0. Wole Soyinka, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, has produced two novels, six collections of poetry and fifteen works of drama. Yet in this book...

A balanced view of IAN paisley.(Paisley: Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Paisley: Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland. Steve Bruce. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]25. xii + 293 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-928102-2. A 'malign colossus', a 'man of wrath', someone displaying 'persecuting zeal' - these descriptions, from three different biographies, sum...

BBC Radio Four and the nation.(Life on Air: A History of Radio Four.)(Book review)
December 22, 2008... Life on Air: A History of Radio Four. David Hendy. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]25.00. xiii + 518 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-924881-0. The BBC began in radio, and that perhaps is where its true strength lies. Much can be forgiven the Corporation - and there is much to forgive of...