Men's games about frontiers
Two Worlds of International Relations: - Rethinking International Relations
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Missiles in the Holy Land
Israel's Nuclear Dilemma
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Salvage from a wreck
Georg Lukacs
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Speaking Volumes
LINDA McDOWELL on Mike Davis's City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles It is incongruous, I know, but I always wanted to be Philip Marlowe, striding down those mean streets, unattached,...
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The Balkan backlash
The New Great Transformation: - The Balkanization of the West:
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The petulant, the devious and the truly awful
Uncertain Partners
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True blue response to a red threat
Recasting Conservatism
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Foresight spots key technologies
More than 20 widely applicable or "generic" technologies, including business process engineering, optical technology and software engineering, have been identified from the work of the Technology...
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Patents threaten research
Medical research is being undermined by flaws in the patent laws which prevent scientists having access to the data they need, according to researchers from the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex...
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Murder protests close university
The University of Botswana has been closed indefinitely following student protests at apparent government failure to investigate the ritual murder of a school student. The minister of education,...
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Off-the-self sociology
Communitarianism has caught the imagination of politicians across the political spectrum. But can its founding father, Amitai Etzioni (above), be all things to all men - and, more importantly, women...
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Reasons to be fearful
Why does the public find a nuclear waste repository risky? Aisling Irwin on the new academic field facing up to a tangle of sociopolitical factors. The people at Yucca mountain in Nevada State, in...
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Pendulum swings back to stability
Ask people at work "what are you most worried about?" and the answer will be "job insecurity". There has been a 90 per cent growth in student numbers since 1980 but very slow growth in staff numbers...
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Copyright and Europe
Charles Oppenheim (THES, March 17) asserts that the planned extension of United Kingdom copyright to 70 years post mortem does not entail harmonisation with European copyright law. Your correspondent...
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Dialogue with disease
Lucy Hodges meets Julie Theriot, a biologist who listens to bacteria talk. In her lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Julie Theriot is busy growing nasty strains of bacteria. She nurtures listeria and...