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Contemporary Review

Founded in 1866, Contemporary Review is a scholarly journal published quarterly. Contemporary Review Company Ltd. owns and publishes this journal, and its editorial headquarters is in Oxford, United Kingdom.Contemporary Review covers a number of topics, including politics, international affairs, literature, art and art history. Its region and its audience are international. Dr. Richard Mullen is the editor; Dr. Alex Kerr is the managing editor; Dr. James Munson is the literary editor; and Anselma Bruce is the associate editor. James LoGerfo, Robin Findlay and Charles Foster are the editorial advisers.

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Articles from Vol. 282, No. 1644, January

Cruising to Alaska
A serpentine queue of passengers waited more or less patiently to embark on the Ballantyne Pier in Vancouver. Behind me an elderly couple who had just flown in from Australia, were beginning visibly to wilt. Their airplane had landed at the Vancouver...
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Germany and the Town Twinning Movement
Half a century after World War II, there is hardly any European city Without one or several twin towns. Yet the role of town twinning in improving international relations on a worldwide scale has been little researched or documented. What is more,...
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Terror in Paradise: The Bali Bombing
The bombs that exploded in Bali on the night of October 12-13 sent debris, so to speak, all over Australia. This was the largest loss of Australian lives in one operation since World War II. Not even the Korean or Vietnam wars resulted in such a massive...
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The European Union as a Template
THE director of Le Monde Diplomatique, Ignacio Ramonet, has written: 'The fast rhythm and deep nature of the geopolitical transformations that have taken place since 1989 impresses, surprises, bewilders... We are still living with the legacy and the...
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The Marquise De Pompadour Visits London
The National Gallery's exhibition, Mme de Pompadour: Images of a Mistress, is a thinner and not only thinner but shallower version of last Spring's Exhibition at Versailles, more pertinently called Mine de Pompadour et les Arts. The rustic pleasantry...
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The Repressive Openness of Political Correctness
One of the shibboleths of the now ageing New Left is that 'the personal is political' and so there is no distinction between private and public spheres, no area of life off-limits to political activism. I reject this world-view as totalitarian and...
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Vietname: Remnants of War
THE Vietnam war, better known to the Vietnamese as 'the American war' has, like the earlier long-drawn out struggle against French colonial rule, left deep scars on the face of a country now at peace and at ease with its former enemies. Remembrance...
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Zionism, Israel and the Arabs
AS a punishment for their revolt against Roman rule, the Jews of Palestine were massacred and the survivors expelled and dispersed over the Roman Empire in A.D. 132-135. They never renounced the hope of returning, and believed that the restoration...
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