CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE
PHILIP BALL

is a science writer

is a writer and former petroleum engineer
RICHARD BARRY ROBIN BLACKBURN is an editor of the New Left Review and teaches at the University of Essex MARK COUSINS is the author of The Story of Film (Pavilion Books) MICHAEL COVENEY STEPHEN EVERSON

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is a theatre critic

COVER STORY

is writing a book on metaphysics and the mind

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Global intellectuals poll results

is a fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University
JOHN GOLDTHORPE DAVID HERMAN has produced television programmes with Noam Chomsky, and is a regular contributor to Prospect G JOHN IKENBERRY

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For and against Chomsky
ROBIN BLACKBURN VS OLIVER KAMM

is a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University is a former MP

ROBERT JACKSON OLIVER KAMM

is the author of AntiTotalitarianism: the Left-Wing Case for a Neoconservative Foreign Policy (Social Affairs Unit)

Is the world’s top public intellectual a brilliant expositor of linguistics and the US’s duplicitous foreign policy? Or a reflexive anti-American, cavalier with his sources?

ERIC KAUFMANN is a lecturer in politics and sociology at Birkbeck College TIM KING

is a writer living in France

JÜRGEN KRÖNIG is British correspondent for Die Zeit

OPINIONS

ESSAYS

10 India joins the west
MARK LEONARD

24 States of development
MATTHEW LOCKWOOD

is author of Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century (4th Estate)
MARK LEONARD BEN LEWIS

Last month saw a small revolution.

presents BBC4’s Art Safari is deputy editor

ALEXANDER LINKLATER

10 Meadow is innocent
RAJ PERSAUD

of Prospect is the author of The State They’re In (ITDG Publishing)
MATTHEW LOCKWOOD

Roy Meadow should not have been struck off the medical register.

Many have argued that the key to development in Africa is more financial aid and more democracy. But Africa’s real problem has been a lack of properly functioning states.

30 A weaker world 12 Angela’s hour
JÜRGEN KRÖNIG G JOHN IKENBERRY

is creative business editor of the Financial Times
GAUTAM MALKANI ALEX MCBRIDE LEWIS PAGE’s

is a criminal barrister

book Lions, Donkeys and Dinosaurs: Blundering and Waste in the Armed Forces will be published by William Heinemann in January 2006

Germany’s grand coalition has a decent chance of pushing reform.

Global and regional governance bodies are suffering a crisis of late middle age. Is this a legitimacy problem, or is US unilateralism to blame?

13 The new unionism
ERIC KAUFMANN

34 Critical clowns
MICHAEL COVENEY

RAJ PERSAUD is Gresham professor for the public understanding of psychiatry EDWARD SKIDELSKY

Northern Ireland’s recent violence reflects unionism’s modernisation.

is a writer living

in Sussex
IAN STEWART

15 Habermas vs the Pope
EDWARD SKIDELSKY

High culture and serious critics have become marginalised in the mass media. Critical clowns have stormed the citadel of Shaw, Tynan and Porter.

is professor of mathematics at Warwick University The Prince of the Marshes will be published in May 2006

The darling of the 68ers and Benedict XVI find their common ground.

38 Time for a deal
ROBERT JACKSON

RORY STEWART’s

16 Perpetuum mobile?
JOHN GOLDTHORPE

STELLA TILLYARD’s

next book A Royal Affair will be published in March 2006

Social mobility does not work as most people imagine.

Tony Blair’s final chance to leave a lasting mark on Britain’s relations with the EU is to trade in our rebate for a decisive reform of the CAP.

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