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At the same time, he gives short shrift to the spread of Islamic fundamentalism and the resurgence of nationalism, seemingly because neither phenomenon fits his paradoxical thesis that mankind is entering a state of grace and risking terminal boredom. To cope with the awkward fact that the red star still...
All of this does little to quell the unease of Arab, African and European onlookers. Neighboring Tunisia and Morocco feel particularly threatened by the Islamic vote. Across the Mediterranean, Spain, Italy and France are girding for waves of fleeing Algerians to wash up on their shores. And throughout the Arab...
A Big Win for Islamic Fundamentalism in Algeria
By week's end, however, Nazarbayev decided to cut himself in and brought the other Central Asian republics with him. Western Sovietologists speculated that he had little choice: if Kazakhstan did not join the commonwealth, it might have split in two. Kazakhs are actually a minority among its 16 million...
IRAN. Facing stalemate or defeat in the war with Iraq, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1987 personally authorized a full-scale renewal of a nuclear-bomb program that the Shah had begun. The program has survived both the end of the Iran-Iraq war and Khomeini's death; Tehran hardly even...