STANLEY HOFFMANN

In many emerging democracies, democracy and stability are mutually incompatible.

Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does.

Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.

We must devise what could be described as a new containment … of the various forms of violence and chaos that a world no longer dominated by the Cold War will entail.

It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.

Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does. But it doesn't necessarily have to come in big packages of 600-page treaties.

In the world we have entered there will be many things that we can do nothing about. We should accept this state of affairs and incidentally, be grateful for it.

A referendum is like playing Russian roulette.

In many emerging democracies, democracy and stability are mutually incompatible.

A referendum is like playing Russian roulette.

We must devise what could be described as a new containment … of the various forms of violence and chaos that a world no longer dominated by the Cold War will entail.

In the world we have entered there will be many things that we can do nothing about. We should accept this state of affairs and incidentally, be grateful for it.

Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does.

It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.

Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does. But it doesn't necessarily have to come in big packages of 600-page treaties.

Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.