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Contents

Vol. 21 No. 9   ·   29 April 1999

Has US power destroyed the UN?

Simon Chesterman: International Relations and Michael Byers

Only in the Balkans

Misha Glenny: The Balkans Imagined

  • Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination by Vesna Goldsworthy
  • Imagining the Balkans by Maria Todorova

Europe’s War

Jeremy Harding: Kosovo

Letters

Norman Cantor, Richard Gott, James Malpas, Andrew Conway, David Edgar, August Kleinzahler, Harry Bugler, Ian Gibson, Louis Gordon, Albert Gelpi, Rebecca Smith

Edward Said: Living by the Clock

Nicholas Spice: Dreaming of Vikram Seth

  • An Equal Music by Vikram Seth

Lorna Sage: ‘The Ground Beneath Her Feet’

  • The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie

John Sturrock: Homage to the Oulipo

  • Oulipo Compendium edited by Harry Matthews and Alastair Brotchie

Glen Newey: Slack-Sphinctered Pachyderm

  • Collected Papers: Technology, War and Fascism by Herbert Marcuse, edited by Douglas Kellner
  • The Contract of Mutual Indifference: Political Philosophy after the Holocaust by Norman Geras

Stephen Sedley: The Law’s Inequalities

Simon Schaffer: Maxwell’s Demon

  • The Natural Philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell by P.M. Harman

Ian Hamilton: Whoop, whoop, terrain

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Has US power destroyed the UN?
Simon Chesterman and Michael Byers: International Relations

Only in the Balkans
Misha Glenny: The Balkans Imagined

Europe’s War
Jeremy Harding: Kosovo