How Do You Keep War Accountable To

It's Good For People To Believe In Causes Larger Than Themselves.

There Are Lots Of Nations In The World Or National Peoples Who Don't Yet Have States. They're Inside Someone Else's State And They Want A State Of Their Own.

I Was With The U.n. Secretary-general Boutros Boutros-ghali On The Day That Srebrenica Fell, Which Happened To Be A Huge Historical Turning Point In The Bosnian War.

Tad Homer-dixon Is A Rare Kind Of Public Intellectual, Who Combines Real Expertise With A Commitment To Communicate To The Widest Possible Readership. In The Ingenuity Gap He Wants Us All To Wake-up To The Fearful Possibility That Our Blithe Trust In Science And Technology May Be Misplaced. Human Ingenuity May Not Be Capable Of Coping With Two Emerging Crises Of This Century And The Next: Population Growth And Environmental Despoliation. Read Homer Dixon's Wake-up Call And You Will See The Future Very Differently.

The Wars Of The Future Will Be Fought By Computer Technicians And By Lawyers And High-altitude Specialists, And That May Mean War Will Be Increasingly Abstract, Hard To Think About And Hard To Control.