Daedalus articles from June 1995

Daedalus archives from June 1995

Report of the Conference on Conditions of World Order - June 12-19, 1965, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy. (first published in Daedalus, Spring 1966)(The Quest for World Order)
June 22, 1995... I. A WORKING DEFINITION OF WORLD ORDER UNDER THE CHAIRMANSHIP AND GUIDANCE of Raymond Aron, the twenty-one men who met at Bellagio from June 12 to June 19 in order to define conditions of World Order participated in a double experiment. One was...

The anarchical order of power. (reprinted from an essay in Britannica Perspectives)(The Quest for World Order)
June 22, 1995... MEN CONTINUE TO BELONG TO political units pretending to independence. Hence, there is no "planetary society" or "human society" comparable to Pueblo or French society, or to the society of the United States or the Soviet Union. The examples...

What is security?(The Quest for World Order)
June 22, 1995... PRINCIPLES OR DEFINITIONS OF SECURITY are a well-established institution of international politics. They are of great importance, in particular, to the ceremonials of reconstruction after large international wars. When Descartes died in Stockholm...

We live in an age of transition. (adapted from speech given March 29, 1995)(The Quest for World Order)(Transcript)
June 22, 1995... MANY DECADES AGO, longer than I care to admit, as a young professor I went to hear a lecture by Harold Macmillan, then recently retired as Prime Minister. He began the presentation of his distilled wisdom by saying: "As they left the Garden of...

Islamists versus the state in Egypt and Algeria.(The Quest for World Order)
June 22, 1995... BOTH THE EGYPTIAN AND THE ALGERIAN STATES are challenged by Islamist political movements whose power has increased greatly in recent years. The ideological family to which these movements claim to belong may be traced to a common source, the...

States and statelessness in late twentieth-century Africa.(The Quest for World Order)
June 22, 1995... IN MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD TODAY, the central issues on the political agenda are the sustainability of the welfare state, democratization, and the reduction in tariff barriers and other forms of protection. These discussions presuppose that...

Democracy for Uganda: a case for comparison.(The Quest for World Order)
June 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION UGANDA IS A SMALL, LANDLOCKED former British East African colony of close to fourteen million people. At Independence in 1962 it was relatively prosperous, its revenue deriving mainly from coffee, cotton, tea, and other...

Meeting the challenge of legitimacy: post-independence Black Africa and post-Soviet European states.(The Quest for World Order)
June 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION ERIC HOBSBAWM USES THE METAPHOR of the intergalactic scholar, who, when examining the documents of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, will fix on a mysterious key word: nation.(2) Hobsbawm emphasizes that the theoretical...

Sweden and its immigrants: policies versus opinions.(The Quest for World Order)
June 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION WHICH COMES FIRST, POLICIES OR OPINIONS? In an ideal and crude model of democracy--one that emphasizes popular rule--opinions come first, policy follows. In a more sophisticated model, opinions and policies influence each other....

Techno-globalism and the challenges to science and technology policy.(The Quest for World Order)
June 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION IN THE PAST DECADE, the character of both the world economy and the world order has changed. Science and technology have become deeply implicated in the move towards an increasingly "globalized," open, and knowledge-based economy....