Please enjoy our new Austrian EU-Presidency website under the address
http://www.eu.presidency.gv.at
Please also take note of our Austrian Foreign Office website
at
>From there, you can also download the Austrian Foreign Policy Yearbook,
which contains quite a number of in-depth analyses on European integration,
regional conflicts, etc.
I also inform you about the excellent Le Monde Diplomatique July edition
below
kind regards
yours Arno Tausch (now Counsellor for Labour and Migration Affairs,
Austrian Embassy Warsaw)
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> From: Le Monde diplomatique <dispatch@london.monde-diplomatique.fr>
> To: English edition dispatch <dispatch@london.monde-diplomatique.fr>
> Subject: July 1998
> Date: Dienstag, 07. Juli 1998 18:24
>
> LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE
> _________________________________________________________________
>
> Le Monde diplomatique
>
> english edition
>
> July 1998
>
> edited by Wendy Kristianasen
>
>
>
>
> LEADER
>
> Hope in Colombia *
>
> by Ignacio Ramonet
>
> Colombia, one of Latin America's oldest democracies, is still one
> of the region's most violent countries where guerrilla movements
> are hand in glove with drug traffickers. But the country's
> newly-elected conservative government may provide the catalyst
> for a new nation-wide drive for peace.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/07/01edito.html
>
> Translated by Ed Emery
>
>
>
> ON THE BRINK OF WAR IN KOSOVO
>
> NATO at a loss
>
> by Alain Joxe
>
> After conducting aerial manoeuvres over Albania and Macedonia in
> mid-June, NATO is now considering whether to make good its
> threats of military intervention in Kosovo. The Atlantic Alliance
> was a creation of the cold war, and the internal disagreements
> among its members prove it is having a tough time formulating a
> consistent strategy for the new world order. The time has come
> for the countries of Europe to establish a continental system of
> preventive security independent of the United States.
>
> Translated by Barry Smerin
>
> Albania exposed
>
> by Chrisophe Chiclet
>
> The crisis in Kosovo has come at a bad time for Albania's
> socialist government which regained power a year ago: the
> troubles are being exploited by the anti-communist opposition and
> there is also the question of the Kosovar refugees. Prime
> Minister Fatos Nano has also failed to tackle the problems of law
> and order, economic recovery and democracy. And the government
> has come under fire even from within its own ranks on the issue
> of corruption.
>
> Translated by Barry Smerin
>
>
>
> BITTER FRUITS OF A MIRACLE
>
> When East Asia falters *
>
> by Philip S. Golub
>
> What would have seemed impossible a few years ago is now
> happening. Japan is faltering. According to Tony Blair, this is
> the greatest threat to the world economy for twenty years. The
> whole of East Asia is now being dragged into recession and
> financial turmoil which could engulf the entire world. The
> restructuring imposed by the West's neoliberal gurus has brought
> down Asia's economies - once praised to the skies - and is now
> destroying the cohesion of its societies.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/07/04golub.html
>
> Translated by Malcolm Greenwood
>
>
>
>
>
> IN THE SHADOW OF GENERALS, HIRED KILLERS AND DRUG TRAFFICKERS
>
> Turkey's pivotal role in the international drug trade
>
> by Kendal Nezan
>
> In August 1998 General Ismail Hakki Karadayi comes to the end of
> his term as chief of staff of Turkey's armed forces. His five
> years in the post have been marked by the growing role played by
> military officers in all aspects of Turkey's political life -
> including the state-sponsored growth of mafia activities related
> to the drugs trade and the murder of opposition politicians and
> civil rights campaigners.
>
>
>
> ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE IN THE HORN OF AFRICA
>
> Ethiopia-Eritrea, an absurd war
>
> by Jean-Louis Péninou
>
> Background to the conflict *
>
> The war between Eritrea and Ethiopia, which by mid-June had
> claimed nearly a thousand lives, has taken everyone by surprise.
> It is not an ethnic, religious or tribal conflict or a power
> struggle but, rather, an old-fashioned border dispute. American
> attempts to mediate have been spectacularly unsuccessful and the
> situation is worrying neighbouring countries and destabilising
> the region.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/07/07ethio2.html
>
> Translated by Lorna Dale
>
>
>
> POWER STRUGGLE IN KIVU
>
> Congolese flashpoint
>
> by Gérard Prunier
>
> Over a year after the overthrow of the dictatorship in Zaire, it
> is clear that the country (renamed Congo) is still facing many of
> the same problems. The most immediate is the threat of ethnic and
> military unrest in the two eastern provinces, North Kivu and
> South Kivu. These were the scene of the 1996 uprising that
> signalled the beginning of the end for President Mobutu. Despite
> all the speeches about conflict prevention, the crisis is not
> unexpected.
>
> Translated by Lorna Dale
>
>
>
> HALTING THE PROLIFERATION OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS
>
> The spectre of bioterrorism *
>
> by Gilbert Achcar
>
> The great powers hang back
>
> by Bruno Barrillot
>
> Conventions and treaties *
>
> Despite the nuclear tests carried out by India and Pakistan,
> proliferation of nuclear weapons will remain relatively limited
> in years to come. States may however be tempted, particularly in
> areas of conflict, to develop other weapons of mass destruction,
> such as chemical and especially biological weapons, which are
> less costly and easier to conceal. The various international
> treaties do not provide adequate control measures: the greatest
> threat to our future is now "bioterrorism".
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/07/09bio1.html
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/07/11bio3.html
>
> Translated by Barbara Wilson
>
>
>
>
>
> THE TWO FACES OF THE TUNISIAN REGIME
>
> Women's rights, but only for some
>
> by Luiza Toscane and Olfa Lamloum
>
> With Algeria consumed by civil war and Morocco going through a
> difficult transition, Tunisia looks like a oasis of stability.
> Yet, in spite of appearances, General Ben Ali has been
> responsible for the systematic repression of Islamists. Speeches
> about women and reformist measures are an attempt to project an
> image of modernity and democracy abroad, but they hide another
> part of the picture.
>
> Translated by Francisca Garvie
>
>
>
> MIDDLE EAST BLUE GOLD
>
> Sharing out the region's water
>
> by Mohamed Sid-Ahmed
>
> Will the war for water be the next major conflict? As consumption
> increases and reserves fall dramatically, countries are having to
> re-evaluate their assets and future development in terms of their
> reserves of "blue gold", and apply contractual disciplines to the
> way in which rivers are shared out in a vast Middle Eastern
> market. However, there is scope for imaginative thinking in order
> to increase the supply of water - and, simultaneously, promote
> peace.
>
> Translated by Julie Stoker
>
>
>
>
>
> FROM WELFARE STATE TO PRISON STATE
>
> Imprisoning the American underclass *
>
> A boom in private penitentiaries
>
> by Loic Wacquant
>
> Prisons in the "free world" are full to bursting point, and
> fullest of all are US jails. Over the past twenty years
> preoccupation with the virtues of law and order has led to a
> toughening of penalties. Worst hit have been those excluded from
> the "American dream". The US is constantly tightening its social
> welfare budget, but its generosity knows no bounds when it comes
> to controlling and incarcerating those whom it has deigned
> neither to educate and care for, nor provide with housing and an
> adequate diet.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/07/14prison.html
>
> Translated by Julie Stoker
>
>
>
> GROWING IMPATIENCE WITH THE STALEMATE IN THE PEACE PROCESS
>
> How Europe could put pressure on Israel
>
> by Isabelle Avran
>
> Flying in the face of international criticism, on 21 June the
> Israeli government sanctioned a plan which is a de facto
> enlargement of the municipality of Jerusalem to reach Israeli
> localities situated to the west of the city and settlements in
> the West Bank. This decision marks a new stage in Israel's policy
> of annexation of the Holy City and totally violates both the
> spirit and the letter of the Oslo accords. Prime Minister
> Binyamin Netanyahu's intransigence is made possible by the
> apparent inability of the United States to exert meaningful
> pressure on its Israeli ally. It is now time for Europe to come
> to the aid of a peace process that is seriously under threat.
>
> Translated by Ed Emery
>
>
>
>
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