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    CONTENTS
Foreword by Agio Pereira     v

    Preface     x
1     Language and Thought: Some Reflections on Venerable Themes     1
2     Language and Nature     31
3     Writers and Intellectual Responsibility     55
4     Goals and Visions     70
5     Democracy and Markets in the New World Order     94
6     The Middle East Settlement: Its Sources and Contours     132
7     The Great Powers and Human Rights: the Case of East Timor     169
8     East Timor and World Order     204

    Endnotes     222

    Index