The author looks at the continuing rise of ethnic conflict on an international level - the continuing violence in Beirut, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Kossovo; the intifada in the West Bank and Gaza and the divisions within the Israeli government over the Egyptian peace plan; border clashes in Kashmir; talks between Hungary and Rumania on the fate of the Magyar minority in Transylvania; the breakdown and resumption of intercommunal talks in Cyprus; Eritrean...