CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

EDWARD CLAY is a research associate at the Overseas Development Institute

MARK COUSINS is the author of The Story of Film (Pavilion Books)

ALEX DE WAAL is a fellow of the Global Equity Initiative, Harvard University

JULIAN EVANS is working on the authorised biography of Norman Lewis

DAVID FLEMING is author of the forthcoming book The Lean Economy

CHARLES GRANT is director of the Centre for European Reform

DAVID HALPERN is a lecturer at Cambridge University

JONATHAN HEAWOOD is editor of the Fabian Review

DAVID HERMAN is a writer

IVAN HEWETT is the author of Music: Healing the Rift (Continuum)

KEVIN JACKSON is the author of Humphrey Jennings (Picador)

ROBERT JACKSON is a former MP

SUNDER KATWALA is general secretary of the Fabian Society

JOHN KAY is the author of The Truth about Markets (Allen Lane)

DAN KUPER works for London Underground

BEN LEWIS presents the BBC4 series Art Safari

ALISON MACLEOD is author of The Wave Theory of Angels (Hamish Hamilton)

ANDREW MORAVCSIK is a professor of politics at Princeton University

JONATHAN POWER writes on foreign affairs for the International Herald Tribune

DAVID RIEFF is the author of A Bed for the Night (Vintage)

ANTHONY ROBINSON is a journalist

ALAN SHIPMAN is the author of The Globalization Myth (Icon Books)

LARRY SIEDENTOP is an emeritus fellow of Keble College, Oxford

WILLIAM SKIDELSKY is books editor of the New Statesman

GISELA STEWART is a Labour MP

IAN STEWART is a professor of mathematics at Warwick University

ERIK TARLOFF is a novelist and writer

JACK THURSTON works for the German Marshall Fund of the United States

4PROSPECT July 2005

contents Issue one hundred and twelve July 2005

COVER STORY

22Europe without illusions

ANDREW MORAVCSIK

LARRY SIEDENTOP

GISELA STUART

JOHN KAY

SUNDER KATWALA

CHARLES GRANT

The constitution is dead, long live the constitution! Did European elites simply oversell a modest document? Is there a real crisis of legitimacy?Andrew Moravcsik analyses; others take issue.

OPINIONS 12The end ofcongestion

DAVID FLEMING Congestion charging won’t be needed in 2015—the oil will be running out. Unless we ration.

13The Uzbek tinderbox

ANTHONY ROBINSON Most post-Soviet states, like Ukraine, decided not to shoot down their citizens. Not Uzbekistan.

G8 SUMMIT 16In praise ofdebt

ALAN SHIPMAN There are sound reasons for countries to incur debt. The G8 relief deal may be a mixed blessing.

17Aid-dumping

ALEX DE WAAL & EDWARD CLAY The use of western food surpluses to provide aid is soon to end. Two cheers.

18Aid,not trade

JACK THURSTON Opening up agricultural markets will not help all African countries.

OPEN LETTER 30Dear Angela Merkel

ROBERT JACKSON Angela Merkel will probably become German chancellor in September. Robert Jackson proposes a new alliance in Europe between Britain and Germany.

ESSAYS 34Dangerous pity

DAVID RIEFF The millions donated to Ethiopia in 1985 after Live Aid were supposed to go towards famine relief. In reality, donors became participants in a civil war and Stalinist resettlement project.