External media links
Published reviews
- Foreign Policy in Focus. Review by V. Noah Gimbel, 11 April 2011.
- Peace Magazine. Review by Ron Shirtliff, 1 July 2011.
- “Medicine, Conflict and Survival”, No. 1, 2011. Review by Joanna Santa Barbara. See also Land of the Long White Cloud (blog) by the same author.
- Canadian Journal of Sociology. Review by Valerie Zawilski, Vol.37, No.1 (2012).
Interviews
- The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Jennifer Clibbon interviewed Metta Spencer on the occasion of Gorbachev’s 80th birthday on 2 March 2011. Read the interview on the CBC website here.
Some of Metta Spencer’s other sites
- For recent views on disarmament from the perspective of Russian, European, and Western experts, see the website and audiovisual archive of November 2009’s Zero Nuclear Weapons conference in Toronto: zeronuclearweapons.com.
- For the complete Peace Magazine archives 1983-present, including edited transcripts of interviews with some of the people quoted in The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy, see www.peacemagazine.org. A selected list of articles and interviews appears further down this page.
- Metta Spencer’s blog is at metta-spencer.blogspot.com, her personal website is at metta.spencer.name, and a site dedicated to her previous book (dealing with the causal effects of vicarious emotions—e.g. via television— on health and social behavior) is at twoaspirinsandacomedy.com.
Peace Magazine articles
Below are links to many interviews and profiles from Peace Magazine, mostly listed by interviewee name (or by a thematic title, where this is more relevant). All of these have at least some relevance to the issues discussed in this book — disarmament, democracy, and nonviolence. Some are edited versions of transcripts which also appear on this site’s informants page. The interviewer/author is Metta Spencer unless otherwise noted.
- Stephen Lewis (Canada) March 1985
- Randel Osburn (re Martin Luther King) April 1985
- Rosalie Bertell (radiation) May 1985
- Anders Boserup, Dietrich Fischer (nonprovocative defence) July 1985
- Maj-Gen (ret.) Leonard Johnson August 1985
- William Epstein (UN) November 1985
- Anne Hume, Derek Paul August 1986
- Eric Fawcett, Derek Paul (Soviets) October 1986
- Mary Kaldor, two anonymous Hungarians December 1986
- Ólafur Grímsson (parliamentarian, later president of Iceland) December 1986
- Jiri Dienstbier (Charter 77) April 1987
- Ambassador Douglas Roche August 1987
- Norman Rubin, Derek Paul (nuclear power, bombs) October 1988
- George Ignatieff (Gorbachev, UN) February 1989
- Gene Sharp, Mubarak Awad (Tiananmen) August 1989
- Margarita Papandreou (WTO ministers) December 1989
- Armenia/Azerbaijan June 1990
- Czechoslovakia after 1989 (article about new govt.) August 1990
- Christopher Kruegler (nonviolent sanctions) July 1991
- Coup September 1991
- Lev Semiko (coup) November 1991
- A three-part series on the World Peace Council by Robert Prince. The first two parts were published in Peace Magazine in 1992, with a third part added in 2011:
- The Ghost Ship of Lonnrotinkatu May 1992
- Following the Money Trail at the World Peace Council November 1992
- The Last of the WPC Mohicans August 2011
- HCA in Bratislava May 1992
- Aaron Tovish (test moratorium) September 1992
- Sergei Rogoff November 1992
- Mikhail Gorbachev May 1993
- HCA in Prague November 1993
- Richard Falk November 1994
- Tatiana Pavlova November 1995
- Ed Garcia March 1996
- Yugoslavia (Albanese, Drakulic, Ignatieff) March 1997
- Mitja Zagar (Yugoslavia breakup) May 1997
- Governing Bosnia March 1998
- Jonathan Schell May 1999
- Louise Arbour April 2000
- Seymour Martin Lipset July 2000
- Opposing Nuclear Weapons October 2000
- Peter Weiss January 2001
- Colonel Petrov’s Good Judgment April 2001
- Junsei Terasawa April 2001
- Valleau, Plekhanov, Santa Barbara April 2001
- Gene Sharp and Serbia October 2001
- Ibrahim Rugova January 2002
- Andrei Kamenshikov July 2002
- Gene Sharp July 2003
- Alexander Likhotal January 2004
- Peacekeeping July 2004
- Susan Brown (Development) October 2004
- Aaron Tovish (Mayors for Peace) July 2005
- Recycling SLBMs April 2006
- Adam Hochschild July 2006
- Metta Spencer (on Two Aspirins and a Comedy) October 2006
- Pugwash and the Bomb July 2007
- Robert Helvey January 2008
- Democracy and the Russians October 2008
- Zero Nuclear Weapons Forum January 2010
- Andrei Kamenshikov April 2010
- Jayantha Dhanapala July 2010
Disarmament Campaigns
Disarmament Campaigns was a bimonthly news service which appeared as an insert in, or section of, various democracy and peace publications including Peace Magazine. It was published out of The Hague and edited by Shelley Anderson.
Twenty-four editions which appeared in Peace between 1986 and 1991 are available online as part of our magazine’s text database. NB: Most issues were scanned from paper originals and hence are not error-free!
Editions are listed here by date and by one selected article or theme (issues covered between 1-4 magazine pages, with a mix of short and longer articles).
- W. German nuclear referendum, Oct-Nov 1986
- Irish neutrality and NATO, Dec 1986-Jan 1987
- E. German peace movement, Feb-Mar 1987
- Japan’s new militarism, Apr-May 1987
- Pakistan, Jun-Jul 1987
- Polish peace conference, Aug-Sep 1987
- Glasnost and the Peace Committees, Oct-Nov 1987
- Glasnost and Czechoslovakia, Dec 1987-Jan 1988
- Slow response to Iran/Iraq war, Feb-Mar 1988
- African nonviolence, Apr-May 1988
- Hungary’s 4-6-0 Group, Jun-Jul 1988
- Campaign Against Arms Trade profiled, Aug-Sep 1988
- Foreign troop withdrawals, Oct-Nov 1988
- Tair Tairov interview, Dec 1988-Jan 1989
- NATO and the INF Treaty, Feb-Mar 1989
- Conscientious objectors in Poland, Aug-Sep 1989
- Tibet, Aug-Sep 1989
- Spanish peace movements, Oct-Nov 1989
- New Zealand still nuclear-free?, Dec 1989-Jan 1990
- Update on Soviet peace movement, Feb-Mar 1990
- European Community expansion, Apr-May 1990
- Nonviolent struggle and social defence, Aug-Sep 1990
- END convention in Tallinn and Helsinki, Oct-Nov 1990
- Helsinki Citizens Assembly, Jan-Feb 1991
John Feffer’s interviews
John Feffer writes (on his site at johnfeffer.com): “In 2012-13, as part of an Open Society Foundation fellowship, I am re-interviewing many of the people I talked to in 1990 when I travelled for seven months through East-Central Europe. Twenty-three years later, I am also interviewing a wide range of additional people in order to get as broad a picture as possible of what has changed (and not changed) in the region since the transformations of 1989.”
Transcripts of these interviews can be found at www.johnfeffer.com/full-interview-list