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Today's date:

Spring 1998

• THE RISE OF THE REST

• POST GLOBALIZATION

• COMMENTARIES 2001-2007

• MADE IN CHINA

• THE TWO SOULS OF TURKEY

• THE NEW GLOBAL CINEMA

• MAKING GLOBALIZATION WORK

• DE-GLOBALIZE THE JIHAD

• THE THIRD WAVE'S THIRD WAY

• PLANET OF SLUMS

• THE GLOBAL IDEOLOGY
OF FEAR

• THE OTHER

• POST-NATIONAL
LITERATURE

• COLLAPSE OR MASSIVE
CHANGE?

• THE RISE AND FALL OF
AMERICA'S SOFT POWER

• THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION

• PUBLIC DIPLOMACY

• THE HEADSCARF CONTROVERSY

• SCULPTURE AND THE
NEW SCIENCE

• BIOTECH AND THE
NEW BABEL

• WAR THROUGH THE
BACK DOOR

• ANTIAMERICANISM

• THE RISING SOFT POWER
OF CHINA & INDIA

• THE BUSH DOCTRINE

• FAIRNESS IN A FRAGILE
WORLD

• AMERICA'S MIGHT

• ISLAM IN THE 21ST CENTURY

• ANTIGLOBOS

• HOT PEACE

• MODUS VIVENDI

• LOOKING NORTH

• FROM WELL HAVING TO
WELL BEING

• POST-HUMAN HISTORY

• GLOBAPHOBIA

• THE GLOBAL MIND

• AFTER KOSOVO

• FROM VIETNAM TO KOSOVO

• DEGLOBALIZATION?

• THE RISE OF THE MEDIA-
INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

• BOOM [NUCLEAR] AND
[BUST] ECONOMIC IN ASIA

• BEYOND CAPITALISM

• ASIAN CRISIS

• CHINA: THE ASIAN
RENAISSANCE

• SLOW IS BEAUTIFUL

• ECLIPSE OF THE BIG
PICTURE

• AFTER THE END OF
HISTORY

• THE EAST IS RED AGAIN

• HALF-A-HEGEMON

• THIRD WAVE TERRORISM

• HEIMAT

• Fall 1987

• Winter 1987

• Spring 1986

• Fall-Winter '84-'85

• Spring 1984

Lettre International Essay Contest

Lettre International and Weimar 1999

European City of Culture are jointly initiating a unique and unprecedented even: a philosophical essay prize competition which calls for entries from all over the world.

In tradition of Enlightenment Europe's academies or arts and sciences, Lettre International and Weimar 1999 - European City of Culture, in cooperation with Goethe Institute, are soliciting response in essay form from a global public to the following Prize Question. This announcement is addressed to all persons, anywhere in the world. You are invited to respond to our prize question in a creative way and from whatever happens to be your own cultural perspective and background. You should aim to provide the most convincing and conclusive solution possible in a spirit of open competition. On the threshold of a new millennium, this international competition of minds hopes to become a symbol of a creative and cooperative global society in the 21st century.

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