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PARTICIPATION REQUIRES A COMMON MODE OF COMMUNICATION, AS WELL AS THE PERCEPTION OF AT LEAST COMPATIBLE SUBSTANTIVE INTEREST ON THE PART OF THE PARTICIPANTS. IT INVOLVES NO ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS' DISPOSITIONS AND ATTITUDES TOWARD ONE ANOTHER, BEYOND A WILLINGNESS TO PARTICIPATE. IT IS QUITE COMPATIBLE WITH MUTUAL HOSILITY, INDIFFERENCE, FEAR OR CONTEMPT.

THIS ESSAY DEFENDS THE IDEA THAT THE END OF THE COLD WAR IS USHERING IN A NEW ERA OF "WORLD PEACE SPONSORED BY CAPITALIST DEMOCRACIES." IT ARGUES THAT THE WARS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE SINCE THE END OF THE COLD WAR CAN BE CLASSIFIED AS "TRANSITIONAL INSTABILITY." IN ADDITION, IT NOTES THAT THE WARS THAT ARE TAKING PLACE ARE NOT BETWEEN THE DEVELOPED, WESTERN NATIONS. IN THIS VIEW, ONE REASON WAR PERSISTS IS THAT PART OF THE GLOBE REMAINS UNDERGLOBALIZED. NEW THREATS OF TERRORISM OR CRIMES INVOLVING BIOTECHNOLOGY, COMPUTER NETWORKS, OR EVEN NUCLEAR WEAPONS COULD PROVE AS DESTRUCTIVE AS WAR BETWEEN NATIONS HAS HISTORICALLY BEEN. "PAX KAPITAL" WOULD NOT USHER IN UTOPIA, BUT IT WOULD BE A START.

THE RESISTANCE TO POLITICAL CHANGE ASSOCIATED WITH THE ISLAMIC BLOC IS NOT NECESSARILY A FUNCTION OF THE MUSLIM FAITH. THIS ARTICLE ARGUES THAT THE EVIDENCE INDICATES QUITE THE REVERSE. IT EXPLORES THE POSSIBILITY OF DIVERSITY AND REFORM AND THE PHILOSOPHIES OF TWO MIDDLE EASTERN REFORMERS, ABDUL KARIM SOROUSH, AND RACHID AL-GHANNOUCHI. IT CONCLUDES THAT THE ISLAMISTIC REFORMIST MOVEMENT HAS A VERY LONG WAY TO GO.

All of us grumble, from time to time, about the ever-increasing commercialization of American life. Whether in the form of overt corporate sponsorship--as evidenced by the "branding" of every major sporting event--or the less conspicuous role of commercial interests in the funding of the arts, America's corporations are a ubiquitous presence. While debates rage over the televising of liquor ads and the degree to which Joe Camel encourages adolescent smoking, of far greater concern, R. George Wright argues, should be the passivity with which we accept excessive commercialization. For

Consider the horror we feel when we learn of a crime such as that committed by Robert Alton Harris, who commandeered a car, killed the two teenage boys in it, and then finished what was left of their lunch. What we don't consider in our reaction to the depravity of this act is that, whether we morally blame him or not, Robert Alton Harris has led a life almost unimaginably different from our own in crucial respects. In Does Law Morally Bind the Poor? or What Good's the Constitution When You Can't Buy a Loaf of Bread? , author R. George Wright argues that while the poor live in the same world a