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Zelikow reviews 'Making Peace' by George J. Mitchell. Making Peace by George J. Mitchell is reviewed.

Although Samuel Johnson once remarked that "patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels," over the course of the history of the United States we have seen our share of heroes: patriots who have willingly put their lives at risk for this country and, especially, its principles. And this is even more remarkable given that the United States is a country founded on the principles of equality and democracy that encourage individuality and autonomy far more readily than public spiritedness and self-sacrifice.Walter Berns's Making Patriots is a pithy and provocative essay on precisely this paradox. H

This article proposes a rereading of the timeline of the British Black Arts Movement, and offers early work by the Pakistan-born British artist, writer, and editor Rasheed Araeen as possible starting points for reading the work of a new generation of artists who emerged in the early 1980s. Making Waves draws attention to a work by Araeen, For Oluwale, which commemorated the racist killing by police officers of David Oluwale, a Nigerian vagrant persecuted in Leeds, England, during the mid-1960s, leading to his death in 1969. While proposing a radical new timeline, the article also concedes that "beginnings are notoriously unstable things."

Preparing tea : spaces, objects, performances -- Creating tea : the national transformation of a cultural practice -- Selling tea : an anatomy of the iemoto system -- Enacting tea : doing and demonstrating Japaneseness -- Beyond the tea room : toward a praxeology of nationness and nationalism

A review essay on a book by Ulf Hannerz, Cultural Complexity: Studies in the Social Organization of Meaning (NY: U of Columbia Press, 1992 [see listing in IRPS No. 81]). Hannerz adopts a cultural anthropological view of postmodern times in attempting to explain why so many individuals have difficulty in making sense of the contemporary world. This difficulty stems from the time-space compression of postmodernism. Greater & more intense contact between different cultures & perspectives has resulted in cultural complexity of contemporary societies both at the core & at the periphery. This phenomenon is illustrated through discussion of three cities of cultural complexity: Vienna, Austria; Calcutta, India, during the Bengal Renaissance; & San Francisco, CA, of the late 1950s. In response to the postmodern shift to greater cultural complexity, anthropologists must shift their focus from the replication of uniformity to the organization of diversity. 1 Reference. D. Generoli

Constitution making is a topic of increasing scholarly and practical interest. Focusing on a set of important case studies, yet also featuring classic articles on the subject, this research review is a critical assembly of theoretical literature. Ensuring wide geographic and historical coverage the research review provides an essential overview of the myriad of circumstances in which constitutions can be made.--Résumé de l'éditeur