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Project Green 46 Not just for tree huggers Society & The Arts Once a darling of the West, then jailed and humiliated, Anwar Ibra- 58 New twist on chinese him has come storming back to power, determined to drag Malaydesign by Jessica Au 60 The Look at Me Generation sia into future. Page 18 _____________________________________________________ by Jennie Yabroff 64 The man who saved the THE ISSUE 36 How Serbia is Akita by Cathleen McGuigan World Affairs defeating the West __________________________ 20 Asia’s former golden by Micheal Freedman boy 38 How Serbia is beati DEPARTMENTS is back by Lorien Hol- ng itself by Morton 4 Periscope land Abramowitz. 5 Perspectives 24 An interview with 19 World View Anwar BUSINESS 65 The Good Life 26 Taiwan vs independ- 40 Europe’s Farmers 68 The Last Word ence learn to love markets by DESIGNING CHINA: innovaby Jonathan Adams Stefan Theil tions are on display at the V&A __________________________________________________________________
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Periscope inflation watch _________________
How Breadt. Explodes SINCE ANCIENT TIMES,
TWO - TIERED: Experts say nato’s disagreement over afghanistan is business as useal, not a sign of demise NATO FUTURE _____________
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S NATO PREPARES FOR ITS The “two-tiered alliance,” with its SUMMIT next month in Bucharest, image of “wimps and wariors, may catchy phrase” but its nothing European governments are facing be new, retired Gen. James L. Jones, a high-stakes game of chicken. NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe from 2003 to U.S. Defense Secretary Robert 2006 and the man who oversaw Gates has warned that unless the extension of its Afghan misEuropean members increase sion. He says the United States has always “outcontributed” the their contributions to the war in members, and that disagreeAfghanistan, NATO risks becom- other ments over missions are natural ing a “Twotiered alliance,” divided among democracies. between the willing and unwilling Still, the future is unclear. Danto fight. iel Fata, the U,S. deputy assistant Gate’s message comes as secretary of Defense for Europian NATO is still struggling to redefine and NATO policy, says the alliance itself nearly 20 years after the col- emerged stronger from spirited delapse of the Soviet threat it was bate over Bosnia and will emerge designed to counter. The United stronger from the Afghan debate, States and Europe have been too. Some experts, however, trying to create a more flexible al- are now predicting that NATO is liance. destined to become what Charles Gates is, however, being unchar- Kupchan, former director Counacteristically melodramatic. NATO cil, calls an “alliance a la carte” in is an alliance of democracy, which which memebrs are freer to opt in will inevetably. Thats true of Ger- or out of missions. What no one many, one of the countries, which sees in NATO’s destruction- that will inevitably follow the will of their was probably just Gate’s way of own people first.”My instructions pushing Europe to do more. “Im from the secretary of Defense not concerned,”says Clark.”NATO were to take the least chalenging gets real cantankerons.” sector in Kosovo. - CHRISTOPHER FLAVELLE
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World Affairs: Iraq ------------------------
Scions of the Surge
-------------------Five years on, the war is transformig the American officer corps. By BABAK DEHGANPISHEH and EVAN THOMAS
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