The Shape of the World Series

The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer interviewed various foreign correspondents in January, 2002, to discuss the United States' role in the international community. Notice how varied the journalists' opinions are and what each journalist believes the U.S. should do in future conflicts. Below are transcripts of the interviews.

* Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International and columnist for Newsweek magazine and The Washington Post, January 3, 2002
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/international/jan-june02/zakaria_1-03.html

* Andres Oppenheimer, syndicated foreign affairs columnist for The Miami Herald, January 4, 2002
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/international/jan-june02/oppenheimer_1-04.html

* Washington Post foreign affairs reporter Jim Hoagland, January 7, 2002
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/international/jan-june02/hoagland_1-07.html

* Robert Kaplan, correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, January 8, 2002
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/international/jan-june02/kaplan.html

* David Filipov, Moscow correspondent for The Boston Globe, January 15, 2002
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/international/jan-june02/filipov_1-15.html

* Trudy Rubin, a foreign affairs columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 16, 2002
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/international/jan-june02/rubin_1-16.html

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This lesson is excerpted from Responding to Terrorism: Challenges for Democracy (© August 2002, Choices for the 21st Century Education Program, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University. All rights reserved.)