Reflection Cafe 2005

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Reflection Cafe 2005

 

December

• Islam, Islam-the West Relations III
• Great Power Stakes in Central Asia
• The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences
• WildCam Africa
• Some Ideas on Turkey's Bid for EU Membership (II)

 

November

Miscellaneous Interviews (I) , The Reflection Cafe
The Internet Classics Archive , Daniel C. Stevenson-MIT
Why Inequality Matters in a Globalizing World , Nancy Birdsall
The Development Challenge Five Years After the Millennium Summit , Kemal Dervis-CGD
Resisting Modernity: The Backlash Against Secularism , Karen Armstrong

 

 

October

 

Iraq and the Democratic Peace , John M. Owen
Miscellaneous Links (I), The Reflection Cafe
Turkey and the European Tent , YaleGlobal
American Politics and Foreign Policy (III-IV) , The Reflection Cafe
Pearls of Wisdom (II), The Reflection Cafe

 

   

September

 

Research Channel: One Bright Idea After Another
9/11 and the Past and Future of American Foreign Policy , Melvyn P. Leffler
Socrates' Defense (Apology), Plato
The Disappearance of the Social Democrats , Mathias Greffrath
Shift Europe's Boundary , Jack Straw
Unnatural Disaster:The Lessons of Katrina , The Worldwatch Institute
Isolationist Invasion , Francis Fukayama

 

 

 

August

 

Asia, Africa, Latin America II , The Reflection Cafe
World Affairs III, The Reflection Cafe
Beyond Imperialism: The New Internationalism , Akira Iriye
Islam, Islam-the West Relations (II) , The Reflection Cafe
Some Ideas on Turkey's Bid for EU Membership , The Reflection Cafe

 

 

 

July

 

Politics and Economy in the Age of Globalization , Yale Global Online
Some UCTV Events ,
Religion has no part in this (London Attack) , Sher Khan
The G8 and Development: The Road to Gleneagles , Center for Global Development
Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States , Sheila Jasanoff

 

 

 

June

 

Pearls of Wisdom (I), The Reflection Cafe
Middle East, Central Asia, Russia, Balkans, The Reflection Cafe
Secularism: The Turkish Experience, Omer Baristiran (Ed.)
Secularism and its Discontents, Nikki R. Keddie
The Two Faces of Globalization: Against Globalization as We Know It , Branko Milanovic
Iran's Presidential Runoff: The Long View , Kaveh Ehsani
On Faith (Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide) , Os Guinness
Fallout from the War on Terror, Yale Global
How Not to Buy Happiness, Daedalus
A Retreat from Great Europe?, Yale Global

 

 

 

May

 

Social Justice and the Future of European Social Democracy, CES-Harvard Univ.
Vital Signs 2005- Vital Facts, Worldwatch Institute
Developing Countries Should Have a Bigger Say in the World Bank and IMF, Yale Global-Kemal Dervis
Violence in Uzbekistan and the Role of the United States, Yasar Sari & Sureyya Yigit
Uzbekistan's Tipping Point: The Violence in Andijan and What Comes Next, Martha B. Olcott
The Euro and the World Economy, C. Fred Bergsten
Foreign Policy Forums
State of the World 2005 Foreword, Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Berlin Launch of State of the World 2005, Worldwatch Institute

 

 

 

April

 

World Affairs (II), The Reflection Cafe
Does "Muslim" Turkey Belong in "Christian" Europe?, The Pew Forum
Africa, Asia, Latin America (I), The Reflection Cafe
Europe vs. America, Tony Judt
Islam, Islam-the West Relations, The Reflection Cafe
The Turkish-Armenian Question, The Reflection Cafe
Kyrgyzstan: Revolution or Not?, Sureyya Yigit & Yasar Sari
The Human Genome & Stem Cell Research, UCTV
Human Rights in Darfur, Sudan: Online Chat Transcripts, Amnesty International
Hotel Rwanda, When The World Closed its Eyes, He Opened His Arms
Gallup Poll of China, Richard Burkholder
China-India Entente Shifts Global Balance, Clyde Prestowitz
Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression, Alvaro Vargas Llosa
Islam and the West, John L. Esposito-Harry Kreisler
The Threat of Internal Extremism, Muqtedar Khan & John L Esposito
Who is "the Other"? Does it Really Exist?, Ilber Ortayli
Europe's Identity and Islams, Renate Holub
Very Bad News, Clifford Geertz
Interreligious Dialogue in Global Perspective, Lawrence E. Frizzell
Tunnel Vision on Corruption, Moises Naim

 

 

 

March

 

Seven Ages of a Man, William Shakespeare
American Politics and Foreign Policy (II), The Reflection Cafe
The Overstretch Myth, David H. Levey and Stuart S. Brown
Promoting Middle East Democracy: Is the US on the Right Track , Thomas Carothers & Marina Ottaway
The 'Clash of Civilizations': Revisited after September 11, Engin I. Erdem
American Muslims and Scholars Denounce Terrorism, CSID

 

 

 

February

 

World Affairs (I), The Reflection Cafe
American Politics and Foreign Policy (I) , The Reflection Cafe
Europe, European Union (I) , The Reflection Cafe
Two Poems from Mevlana Rumi
Philosophy and the Habits of Critical Thinking , John Searle
Turkey on the Threshold: Europe's Decision and U.S. Interests , The Atlantic Council
There are limits to American Power , Eric Hobsbawm
American Grand Strategy in a World at Risk , Walter Russell Mead
Should Turkey join the EU? , BBC
European Integration and the Transformation of Turkish Democracy , S.Aydin & F.Keyman
Whither Political Islam? , Mahmood Mamdani