Policy Review articles from August 2004

Policy Review archives from August 2004

Outline of a Doctrine of French Policy: (August 27, 1945).
August 1, 2004... Editor's note: In the aftermath of World War II, the philosopher Alexandre Kojeve presented the French government his "Outline of a Doctrine of French Policy," a document that remains today of scholarly, historical,...

Kojeve's Latin Empire.
August 1, 2004... "The Era where all of humanity together will be a political reality still remains in the distant future. The period of national political realities is over. This is the epoch of Empires, which is to say of...

The terrorism to come.
August 1, 2004... TERRORISM HAS BECOME over a number of years the topic of ceaseless comment, debate, controversy, and search for roots and motives, and it figures on top of the national and international agenda. It is also at present one of the most highly...

Bush and the cities.
August 1, 2004... A CONSENSUS HAS EMERGED in the field of urban politics: The glory days of national urban policy were actually quite inglorious. Mainstream urban scholars and practitioners--on both the left and right--have become dismissive of, and even hostile...

Lubavitchers and liberals.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... JAN FELDMAN. Lubavitchers as Citizens: A Paradox of Liberal Democracy. CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS. 212 PAGES. $32.50 HIGHLY EDUCATED Americans tend to have little place in their imagination and less patience in their hearts for the devoutly...

Conflicts religious and secular.(Book Review)
August 1, 2004... ARTHUR HERTZBERG. The Fate of Zionism: A Secular Future for Israel & Palestine. HARPERSANFRANCISCO. 208 PAGES. $19.95 BEFORE THE Iraqi-Jewish poet Sasson Somekh left Baghdad for Tel Aviv in 1951, he returned to one of the literary cafes of...