CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE
PHILIP BALL’s most recent book is The Devil’s Doctor (Heinemann) STEPHEN CHAN

is the dean of law and social sciences at Soas works for Javier Solana

contents
Issue one hundred and twenty-three June 2006

ROBERT COOPER MARK COUSINS

is the author of The Story of Film (Pavilion Books) is director of

ALASTAIR CROOKE

Conflicts Forum
SHEREEN EL FEKI

COVER STORY

is a journalist working for Al Jazeera International is a musician and producer

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National anxieties
DAVID GOODHART

BRIAN ENO

STEPHEN EVERSON

is writing a book on metaphysics and the mind is editor of Prospect

DAVID GOODHART ROBERT HARLAND

is a psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital in London

DAVID HERMAN is a contributing editor to Prospect DONALD HIRSCH is special adviser to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation JOHN KAY

is an economist is a football agent

Issues of security and identity have been unexpectedly prominent since 1997. Labour has found itself squeezed between its liberal supporters and its anxious ones. The two can be reconciled in a politics of liberal realism based on a robust defence of national citizenship.

STEVE KELLY TIM KING

is a writer living in France

JAMES LASDUN’s

most recent novel is Seven Lies (Jonathan Cape) is a professor of social policy at the LSE

OPINIONS

SYMPOSIUM

12 Goodbye Galbraith
JOHN KAY

22 World cup fever
ALEXANDER OSANG, CARYL PHILLIPS STEVE KELLY & HARRY REID

JULIAN LE GRAND

is the author of Open World (Abacus)
PHILIPPE LEGRAIN ALEXANDER LINKLATER

JK Galbraith’s skill lay not in economic theory but in public comment.

12 Arabs and Aids
SHEREEN EL FEKI

is deputy

editor of Prospect
DANIEL LITVIN

An East German’s ambivalence over German success; Ghana’s struggle to blend stars with locals; the rise of the US; and a prayer for English failure.

is the author of Empires of Profit (Texere)

Do Islamic practices protect Arab countries from HIV? ESSAYS

ALEXANDER OSANG is a German journalist and writer

14 Healthy controls
JULIAN LE GRAND

36 After Freud
ALEXANDER LINKLATER & ROBERT HARLAND

is author of Dancing in the Dark (Secker & Warburg)
CARYL PHILLIPS JONATHAN RÉE is a freelance historian and philosopher HARRY REID

The NHS is improving—while swapping targets for quasi-markets.

16 Crude politics
DANIEL LITVIN

is a former editor of the Glasgow Herald is an associate director

The struggle between oil firms and poor countries continues.

On the 150th anniversary of his birth, Sigmund Freud’s legacy is being dismantled by the ideas of his greatest challenger, Aaron Beck. But with cognitive science comes a new battle for the meaning of the human mind.

BEN ROGERS

of IPPR
IAN STEWART

17 Forcing the vote
BEN ROGERS

is professor of mathematics at Warwick University is a novelist, screenwriter and journalist living in London

42 War and democracy
ROBERT COOPER

Belief in voting as a duty has withered. We need compulsory turnout.

ERIK TARLOFF

18 Mugabe’s last gasp
STEPHEN CHAN

book A Royal Affair is published by Chatto and Windus
STELLA TILLYARD’s

Zimbabwe’s economy is in meltdown. Can the country learn from China?

Tony Blair’s former foreign affairs adviser considers the ambiguous lessons of the Iraq war. Realpolitik, he finds, is still necessary in a world of power but increasingly unworkable in a world of democracy.

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