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This article argues that media are not merely conduits for the government, political parties or citizens in post-apartheid South Africa, but have emerged as autonomous power centres in competition with other power centres. The transformation of the South African media since the demise of apartheid has taken the form of significant changes in the media's environment. There is now freedom to criticise the government, unprecedented access to state-held information, and the state's monopoly over broadcasting and diversification of commercial print media has been broken. Yet these developments have not in themselves had very many positive effects on democratic participation, and the media have not engaged in an effective critique of the country's continuing high levels of social and economic inequality or the structural constraints on the democratisation of its political life. (...) (AAS/DÜI)

THE DISSOLUTION OF THE SOVIET UNION HAS RENDERED NUCLEAR MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY VULNERABLE TO VARIOUS FORMS OF DIVERSION, WHICH MAY ENABLE TERRORIST USE OF NUCLEAR OR RADIOLOGICAL DEVICES. THE SEVERAL TERRORIST OPTIONS IN THIS REGARD ARE DESCRIBED AND EVALUATED. ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION THROUGH A RADIOLOGICAL DEVICE OR REACTOR SABOTAGE IS A VIABLE OPTION. A GENERAL THEORETICAL PRINCIPLE IS ADVANCED AS A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION FOR THE TERRORIST AVOIDANCE OF THE NUCLEAR OPTION.

THIS ARTICLE STATES THAT JOHN GRAY'S (A CHAMPION OF CLASSICAL LIBERAL THOUGHT) RECENT CRITIQUE OF LIBERALISM, AND HIS CASE FOR AN APPARENTLY RELATIVISTIC "POST-PYRRHONIAN" POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, ARE SHOWN TO BE WANTING. WEAKNESSES IN GRAY'S CRITIQUE ARE IDENTIFIED AND DISCUSSED: THE CHARACTERIZATION OF LIBERALISM AS UNIVERSALLY PRESCRIPTIVE CONFUSION, ABOUT WHETHER LIBERALISM IS A GENUINE TRADITION, AND MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE RELATION BETWEEN CONDUCT AND THE VALUE OF FREEDOM. A FORMULATION OF LIBERALISM THAT IS NOT UNIVERSALIST ("TEMPERATE" LIBERALISM) IS OFFERED, AND IT IS SHOWN THAT ONE OF LIBERALISM'S VITAL CONCERNS--CONTROLLING POLITICAL POWER IN ORDER TO PROTECT FREEDOM--IS A HIATUS IN GRAY'S THEORY.

Coordenadas O5 20'-O0 35'/N43 50'-N40 50'. Meridiano de París ; Escala gráfica además en leguas de 25 al grado ; Relieve : sombreado ; Copia digital . España : Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte. Subdirección General de Coordinación Bibliotecaria, 2010

Coordenadas : E15 30'-E37 15'/N58 15'-N49 50'. Meridiano de París ; Escala gráfica además en leguas comunes de Francia y Westars rusas ; Inserta: Champ de batalle de la Moskova ; Copia digital . España : Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte. Subdirección General de Coordinación Bibliotecaria, 2010