Nationalism, ethnicity and democracy: contemporary manifestations

Peri Pamir
Introduction
The subject of nationalism is extremely complex, not the least because of the many different sources and manifestations of the phenomenon. This paper will deal essentially with certain contemporary forms of nationalism which have emerged or intensified in Europe and the former Soviet Union during the 1990s. In order to place this discussion in [...]

End Coalition with US

Michael McKevitt, 2 february 2006
On 20 March 2003, the coalition government secured the necessary parliamentary approval to allow US military forces utilise landing and refuelling facilities at Shannon Airport. During the debate Bertie Ahern argued that a refusal to allow US military and civilian aircraft avail of Shannon would be viewed as “a radical and [...]

Ethno-nationalism was Basis of Building Soviet States

One of the factors thought to have led to the break-up of the Soviet Union was the reemergence of ethno-nationalism. However, ethnic identity was purposely cultivated during the Communist Revolution of 1917 to overthrow the Russian aristocracy, said visiting scholar Yuri Urbanovich at a conference on “Russia in Turmoil” March 6 through 8, sponsored by [...]

‘Ethno-nationalism’: new interethnic tensions in Latin America

by Luis Esteban González Manrique, del Real Instituto Elcano, Jul-19-05
Theme: In his latest report on global trends, the United States National Intelligence Council mentions ‘militant indigenism’ associated with anti-Americanism as one of the potential hazards for hemispheric security.
Summary: In many Latin American countries the proliferation of new ‘armed actors’ is linked with the gradual [...]

Fare thee well, Lansdowne Road!

Damiano Benzoni
130 anni tra arruolamenti, ammutinamenti e proposte di matrimonio: chiude il tempio del rugby irlandese
Il 31 dicembre Dublino ha detto addio a un simbolo della città: il Lansdowne Road, lo stadio che ospitava le nazionali irlandesi di calcio e rugby. Uno stadio vecchio oltre 130 anni, costruito interamente in legno, quasi a dargli le [...]

The wishing tree

Kathleen Jamie

I stand neither in the wilderness
not fairyland,
but in the fold
of a green hill,
the tilt from one parish
into another.
To look at me
through a smirr of rain
is to taste the iron
in your own blood;
because I bear
the common currency
of longing each wish.

Baader Meinhof

Arthur Schopenauer

Everyone takes the limits of his
own vision
for the limits of the world.

Interview with Gilles Peress

Gilles Peress meets Harry Kreisler of Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
Background
Gilles, welcome to Berkeley.
Thank you.
Tell us a little about your background. Where were you educated, and in what subject?
I grew up in France, in Paris, and I studied political science and philosophy. Not photography.
Who were some of the political philosophers that influenced you?
Well, in [...]

Peress: the Act of Seeing

Born December 29, 1946, France. Institut d’Etudes Politiques, 1966-1968, and Universite de Vincennes, 1968-1971. Joined Magnum Photos as an associate in 1972, became a member in 1974. Vice President 1984-85; President 1986-87, 1989-90. Represented by Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
Gilles Peress is the recipient of many awards including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, La Fondation [...]

Irish Poetry

Michael Longley

Impasto or washes as a rule:
Tuberous clottings, a muddy
Accumulation, internal rhyme -
Fuchsias droop towards the ground,
The potato and its flower.
Or a continuing drizzle,
Specialization of light,
Bog-water stretched over sand
In small waves, elisions -
The dialect of silence.
Or, sometimes, in combination
Outlining the bent spines,
The anular limbs of creatures -
Lost minerals colouring
The initial letter, the stance.