South-East Asia loses its grip

The world this week

Leaders

The Guevara effect

Bad for Latin America, then and now

Justice in Bosnia

Pursuing war criminals like Radovan Karadzic is risky, but right

Welcome to Europe

Enlarging the European Union may be tough, but it should still be the Union’s top priority

The powerful pound

Sterling’s strength should not distract the Bank of England from its real task

Greens v genes

It is good news that eco-alarmists have been defeated in a European patent battle. They have been obstructing biotechnology in Europe for too long

Letters

Letters

Europe

Bosnia

Progress at last?

The Basques

A murder too far

Briefing

The increasing loneliness of being Turkey

A country that could be the meeting-place of democracy and Islam is in danger of becoming a no-man’s-land between them. This can be prevented

Culture

English snobbery

Harassed

Writing history

Red tinge

East Germany

Dirty washing

America’s presidential election

Spin quacks

Travel guides on CD-ROM

Hard slog

How white folks came to rule the world

Geographical determinism

The writer of westerns

Defrocked

The governance of Britain

Subjects or citizens?

Scottish history

Wha’s like them?

Elusive Kurdistan

A nation divided

Muslims in Europe and America

Perversity amid diversity

America and Vietnam

Fanciful

Britain in its prime

All change

Chinese dissidents

Human wrongs

Boutros Boutros-Ghali’s memoirs

No Napoleons

The East European shtetl

Last chapter

Science & technology

Obituary