Recently added articles from Contemporary Review:
'Not with a bang but a whimper': the fall of Thabo Mbeki.
Dec 22, 2008; ... FOR Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa, September 2008 was the best of times and the worst of times. On September 15th he presided over a signing ceremony in Harare which formalised the power sharing arrangement he had mediated between Zimbabwe's bitter enemies: Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF ...
The next united states presidency.(challenges facing United States President Barack Obama)(Essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... BETWEEN his election on 4 November and the time he takes office on 20 January 2009 the world will be awash with articles advising the next US President, Barack Obama, how he should set about the enormous task ahead of him. Pundits of every description will be putting forward their ...
Human Rights: the sixtieth anniversary.(1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Dec 22, 2008; ... DECEMBER marks the sixtieth anniversary of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The twentieth century saw both some of history's worst violations of human rights and yet also some of the most spectacular advances in their protection. There is a still long way to go. But, at ...
Finland's reaction to the Georgia crisis.
Dec 22, 2008; ... THE world has been shocked as the spectre of a 'New Cold War' has been raised by Russia's August invasion of Georgia's break-away regions. Former Soviet states are feeling particularly alarmed at this renewed Russian aggression but Finland, often lumped together with Scandinavia, also has ...
The limits of expansion: the European union and NATO.(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Dec 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 ...
Canada's 2008 election: a carbon copy from the past.
Dec 22, 2008; ... 'Thirty-seven lost days and 300 million squandered loonies [a Canadian term for a one dollar coin] later, there's one simple election question that has yet to be given a satisfactory answer in either of our official languages. What the hell was that all about? To put it more delicately, ...
Corruption and populism in Bulgaria.
Dec 22, 2008; ... IF for most Western Europeans and British people in particular, Bulgaria, a country with a population of over 7,600,000 is seen as an idea) place for holidays or retirement, the situation in the country shows little sign of comfort. Since the summer. Bulgarian cases of corruption have been ...
A deadly trade: a Nigerian matriarch wages war on counterfeit drugs.(Professor Dora Akunyili, director-general of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control)
Dec 22, 2008; ... AN AFRICAN woman whose family has suffered the effect of the insidious trade in counterfeit pharmaceuticals has unleashed a global campaign against that deadly, multi-billion dollar enterprise. So far, she is winning. But she has barely survived an assassination attempt. ...
The penalties of apostasy in Malaysia.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Editor's Note: On 21 November Malaysia's National Fatwa Council issued a ruling commanding all the country's Muslims to avoid practising yoga, as it was connected with Hinduism and could 'destroy the faith of a Muslim'. This article shows the complicated attitudes towards any form of ...
Medical tourism.(European Commission's law on cross-border health care)
Dec 22, 2008; ... AT the beginning of July this year, after at least one earlier promised date had been missed, the EU Commission released its Directive on cross-border health care within the EU. It is intended to promote and clarify the right of patients to get health care treatment in another EU country, ...
Coping with floods: Mozambique and Britain.
Dec 22, 2008; ... MOZAMBIQUE is one of the world's poorest countries, the United Kingdom is one of the richest. Both are struggling to respond to a changing climate. Factory workers hurriedly evacuated after a local river burst its banks; firemen having to rescue a mother and child after their car got stuck ...
Martin Buber: philosopher and visionary.(Biography)
Dec 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)
Dec 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 ...
A balanced view of IAN paisley.(Paisley: Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland)(Book review)
Dec 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 ...
BBC Radio Four and the nation.(Life on Air: A History of Radio Four.)(Book review)
Dec 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 ...
Seeing through V.S. Naipaul's eyes.(A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling. V.S. Naipaul. Picador. [pounds sterling]16.99. vii + 194 pages. ISBN 978-0-330-48524-1. The title, A Writer's People, does cover everything and everyone in the book from Virgil to Anthony Powell, but the sub-title, Ways of Seeing ...
The British stage since the war.(State of the Nation: British Theatre Since 1945)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945. Michael Billington. Faber and Faber. [pounds sterling]25.00. vii + 435 pages. ISBN 978-0-571-21034-3. Michael Billington, the life-long theatre critic, covers the theatrical history of post-war Britain in his book, State of the ...
Nureyev remembered.(Rudolf Nureyev: The Life)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Rudolf Nureyev: The Life. Julie Kavanagh. Penguin Fig Tree. [pounds sterling]25.00. 787 pages. ISBN 978-1-905-49015-8. The merit of this biography lies in its comprehensive detail. Nureyev's life is laid before us from birth to death, almost as though Julie Kavanagh were an ...
Kipling and India.(Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling. Charles Allen. Little, Brown. [pounds sterling]20.00. xix + 426 pages, ISBN 978-0-316-72655-9. The author's publishers do not brag when they say of Charles Allen that 'few are as well qualified to write about Kipling in ...
New literature guides from Cambridge.(The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English; The Cambridge Introduction to the Nineteenth-Century American Novel)(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English. Adrian Hunter. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]40.00 (US$75.00). vii + 202 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-68112-4. Publ. Oct. 07 and The Cambridge Introduction to the Nineteenth-Century American Novel. Gregg Crane. Cambridge ...