Contents:
1. Global but parochial
- New frameworks for foreign policy
- Global but parochial
- Nurturing our Hispanic bonds
- New points of relevance
- Our place in southeast Asia
- Foreign policy: a breakdown in consensus?
- Nurturing a new RP-US relationship
2. Asia and the Pacific
- Thailand and the Philippines
- Why the Spratlys stay on the world's agenda
- Fruits of Southeast Asia
- Japan's nuclear future
- Two success models
- Dr. Anwar Ibrahim, Ateneo alumnus
- Turmoil in Indonesia
- The trial of a prime minister
- The straits of Lombok and other chokepoints
- A numb response to the Spratly crisis
2. The United States and Europe
- The legacy of Abe Lincoln
- A comeback trail for red parties in Europe
- At the gates of the Parthenon
- Immigration: a new specter haunting the West
- Fil-Americans: dilemmas without answer
- Filipino without answer
- The Middle East: dialogue of the deaf
4. The UN and other world for a
- Genghis Khan and the APEC
- New era of trade wars highlights role of WTO
- ASEAN turns back the social clause
- Welcome to the leaders of Asia Pacific
- Ramos now a world leader
- WTO frees up high-tech trade
- UN peacekeeping: a transparent approach
- Proliferation at the UN
- Notes on the 75th anniversary of the International Labor Organization
-ILO: still the sentinel at the gates of the World's Social Conscience
5. Travel and literature
- The pleasures of reading world history
- Restoring national dignity through passport reform
- The protection of literary and artistic works
- A moveable feast
- Developing the translation profession