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ALASDAIR MACINTYRE ARGUES THAT THE LIBERAL TRADITION LACKS STANDARDS OF RATIONAL JUSTIFICATION AND RELIES INSTEAD ON INTERMINABLE DEBATE. IN CRITIQUING MACINTRYRE'S VIEW, THIS ARTICLE CONTENDS THAT LIBERALISM IS NEITHER MARKED BY MORE INTERMINABLE DEBATE THAN PREVIOUS TRADITIONS NOR IT IS MORE LACKING IN THE RESOURCES FOR RESOLVING SUCH DEBATE. INDEED, THE AUTHOR ARGUES THAT LIBERALISM MEETS MACINTYRE'S DESCRIPTION OF A TRADITION.

Suggestions for welfare reform are offered & the welfare debate, from the early 1960s to the present, is reviewed, showing that the Left was largely silenced in the debate by its own loss of confidence in the idea of the welfare state. It is argued that the two most pressing problems in contemporary welfare programs -- inadequate benefits & the demeaning treatment of beneficiaries -- will not be solved by decentralization, universalization, or community participation. Federal income maintenance programs are advocated because they are more equitable & less susceptible to local business pressures & the politics of resentment that is encouraged by regressive state tax policies. It is concluded that welfare reform should begin with the restoration of benefits in the means-tested & unemployment programs that bear directly on labor power & class inequalitites. W. Howard

After presenting and discussing a stochastic modell (the Markov model) of change and continuity in a nation's diplomatic principles, the author applies this model to mainland China's diplomacy. He believes that the model successfully describes the pattern of change and continuity in mainland China's diplomacy, suggesting that the system is unstable and full of transitions and changes in principles. (DÜI-Sen)

Brazilian specialists have long recognised the importance of the 1960 presidential elections, which set in motion a process that culminated in a 21-year military dictatorship. The author examines Brazil's president Juscelino Kubitschek's role in this election, and why the country's largest party, the Partido Social Democratico, nominated for president a weak candidate, marshal of the Brazilian army Henrique Teixeira Lott

As the author sees it, Chinese film, because it is a centralized state industry subject to governmental leadership, is an excellent barometer of the country's political climate. After a brief review of the Chinese film industry since 1949, he evaluates Chinese films produced and directed by the "Fifth Generation" since 1978 against the background of changing political climates. (DÜI-Sen)

The author looks for elements of common identity among Latin America's population and finds them in language, exploitation and poverty. According to her, Latin American people tend to overlook their similarities because they emphasize national features and the impact of cultural impositions. She believes that millions of Latin Americans are searching together for a new road to union

According to the author, since the disappearance of the USSR from the political map of the globe and the virtual end of the Cold War, India and the USA have considerably improved their political relationship that was marked by high Cold War rhetorics in the recent past. He explores Indo-U.S. relations, especially the strategic co-operation between the two countries. (DÜI-Sen)

The late 1970s witnessed the popularization of the term "Hispanic" to refer to Mexican-Americans and other ethnic groups of Latin American origin in the USA. Based on interviews of a dozen Mexican-American elected officials and representatives of major policy organizations in 1985 and 1986, the author examines the attitudes of Mexican-American political elites toward the Hispanic label

The author examines the historical transition to a new form of state and society ushered in by the 1952 revolution in Bolivia, identifies some of its key contradictions and traces its historical evolution until 1964. He concludes that Bolivia's 1952 revolution was a transformist change; it resulted in a form of state that mediates between the world and national order

Having discussed traditional co-operative activities in Thai villages (especially in the village of Ban Thon in Khon Kaen province), the author examines the recent changes in the village community and in co-operative activities, the traditional character and functions of the village community and the impact of the market economy on the system of co-operation in Thai village society. (DÜI-Sen)

The author discusses official Chinese reactions to Western media coverage on China and Western criticism of Tiananmen incident. He argues that the Chinese did make policy concessions (as a result of Western pressure) in respect of human rights, arms sales and nuclear proliferation, foreign policy and trade after the Tiananmen incident on 4th June 1989. (DÜI-Sen)