Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn : Reflections on the eve of the twenty-first century -- Czeslaw Milosz : The fate of the religious imagination -- Akbar S. Ahmed : Media mongols at the gates of Baghdad -- Zbigniew Brzezinski : Weak ramparts of the permissive west -- Samuel P. Huntington : Civilizations at odds -- Ivan Illich : The shadow our future throws --

Isaiah Berlin : Return of the Volkgeist: nationalism, good and bad -- Pierre Trudeau : Against nationalism -- Carlos Fuentes : The federalist way -- Felipe Gonzalez : The limits to self-determination -- Hans Jurgen Syberberg : Germany's heart: the modern taboo -- Bernard Henri-Levy : Bosnia and the Diet Coke civilization -- Wole Soyinka : Hope and horror in Africa -- V. S. Naipaul : The Hindu awakening -- Ryszard Kapuscinski : La raza cosmica in America -- Alvin and Heidi Toffler : Revolt of the rich --

Octavio Paz : West turns east at the end of history -- Takeshi Umehara : The civilization of the forest: ancient Japan shows postmodernism the way -- Shuichi Kato : Japan's empty core -- Jean Baudrillard : After Utopia: the primitive society of the future -- Oliver Stone : Splinters to the brain -- Daniel Boorstin : A history of the image: from pseudo-events to virtual reality --

Lee Kuan Yew : The East Asian way -- Michael Manley : Adam Smith was right -- Akio Morita and David Rockefeller : Capitalism east and west: a dialogue -- Nelson Mandela : The waning nation-state -- Francois Mitterrand : A smug indifference to the global outerclass -- Shimon Peres : The end of the hunting season in history.