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CONTENTS

PAGE 4 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

4 TWENTY YEARS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT:

6 Us, together Jeffrey Sachs

10 Beyond BrundtlandSteve Bass

14 Our Collective ResponsibilityGro Harlem Brundtland

16 Destination Doubts Beverley Darkin

18 CHINA’S OLYMPIC COUNTDOWN:

18 Reading the New China Right Kerry Brown 21 Eye of the Tiger Fan He

24 DEMOCRACY ON THE SUBCONTINENT: South Asia at Sixty Gareth Price

27 ASIA-PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION: Secure in Sydney Keith Suter

29ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH EASTERN NATIONS:Hazy Outlook Gareth Price and Tamara Lynch

EDITOR Graham Walker ASSISTANT EDITOR Alison Couldridge DESIGNER Martin Colyer DATABASE Michael Farrell INTERN Tom Patterson

32ZIMBABWE AFTER MUGABE:Ready for Change Michelle Gavin

34DEVALUATION OF ARAB BLOOD:Worth, Dignity, Beauty Riad Nourallah

37 MIDDLE EAST - EMIGRATION:Leaving Lebanon Mark Daou

38POSTCARD FROM UZBEKISTAN:Into the Valley James Nixey

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