BardPolitik
The Bard Journal of Global Affairs
Volume 2, Fall 2002

Highlights of the Issue
Articles and interviews with:
Caleb Carr, James Chace, Ehud Eiran, Omar Encarnacion, Tony Lang, Kenneth Roth, Kristen Schurr

Table of Contents
Click on the article titles to download PDFs of each.

Section Contents
Editor’s Notebook  Language and the National Interest
by Rob Ponce
Global Challenge 

Chasing Progress: Assessing Crises in the Third World: An Interview with Sir Kieran Prendergast, UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs
By Rafi Rom

Rereading Terrorism as Global Warfare
By Caleb Carr

The Invisible Men of Colombia
By Toni Walker

Can Israel Maintain Its Role in a Globalized World?
By Ehud Eiran

Duck & Cover: Why We Must Abolish Nuclear Weapons
An interview with Jonathan Schell, author of The Unfinished Twentieth Century

By Rob Ponce

International Jurisdiction 

Milosevic, et al: The ICCs Daunting Mandate
By Angela Edman

An Empire above the Law
By Kenneth Roth

Report From the Hague
An interview with Fred Abrahams, author of Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo

By Angela Edman

Viewpoints

A Question of Solvency
By James Chace

Digging Up Hannah Arendt
By Tony Lang

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Cuddling with George W.
Interview with Dov Zakheim,
U.S. Under Secretary of Defense

By Jon Reingold

Education in a New Era:
Bard College’s Leon Botstein

Interviewed by Eben Kaplan

Books

Mass Graves, Mass Denial
“A Problem from Hell”: America in the Age of Genocide, by Samantha Power

Reviewed by Rob Ponce

Policing the Empire
“Savage Wars of Peace,” by Max Boot

Reviewed by Eben Kaplan

On Globalization and Its Discontents
Three recent books on the Failings of Globalism

Reviewed by Rafi Rom

Sketches of Latin America
“Looking For History,” by Alma Guillermoprieto

Reviewed by Omar G. Encarnacion

Letter From Bethlehem

An Eyewitness Account from Inside the Church of Nativity
By Kristen Schurr

Past Issues:

Volume 1

Editor: Rob Ponce

Managing Editor: Rafi Rom

Associate Editors: Angela Edman, Eben Kaplan, Jon Reingold, Teodor Stan

Editorial Advisory Board: Jonathan Becker, James Chace, Jamie Miller, Joel Rosenthal

Special Thanks to Jonathan Becker, Leon Botstein, Stuart Stritzler-Levine, Daniel Reed, John Goldsmith, Caroline Goldsmith, and the Bard–St.Stephen’s Alumni/ae Association

Contributors: Caleb Carr, James Chace, Angela Edman, Ehud Eiran, Omar Encarnacion, Bryan Gunderson, Eben Kaplan, Tony Lang, Rob Ponce, Jonathan Reingold, Rafi Rom, Kenneth Roth, Kristen Schurr, Toni Walker

Cover photograph: Three Northern Alliance soldiers on the road between Salang Pass and Jabal-so-Saraj, Afghanistan, November 2001. © Zalmai 2001

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