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COPYRIGHT 2007 Professors World Peace Academy
In the Genesis story of the first violence in human society, after Cain killed Abel he said to God, "Am I my brother's keeper?" After which, Cain went off and built his own city, separated from the family that gave him birth. In this issue, several authors answer "Yes," we are our brother's keeper and we are all together in this ever-more-crowded planet. We cannot continue to try to live separately.
The first essay, by Morton A. Kaplan, is a comment on the recent article by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, "Containing Russia: Back to the Future?" that was pulled from publication in Foreign Affairs and published uncensored on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry. (1) Lavrov, fearing the belligerence of the bipolar Cold War period might be returning, nostalgically looked to the golden age of the Westphalian system of nation-states as a model international system. He called upon the United Nations, which enshrines an international system based state sovereignty, to serve as the primary institution on international...
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