Globalization

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Essay, JUL/AUG 2009
Roger C. Altman

The popularity of the U.S. economic model is waning. To put globalization back on track, President Barack Obama must articulate the benefits of open markets and free trade.

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Postscript,
William B. Karesh

How studying animal and human disease together could help prevent and treat the next pandemic.

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Essay, May/June 2009
Ian Bremmer

Across the world, the free market is being overtaken by state capitalism, a system in which the state is the leading economic actor. How should the United States respond?

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Response, May/June 2009
Robert Madsen; Richard Katz

Does the current financial crisis resemble Japan's "lost decade" of the 1990s? It may be even worse, argues Robert Madsen. Not so, replies Richard Katz.

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Postscript,
Rawi Abdelal and Adam Segal

The international financial crisis has thrown the forward march of globalization into question. If the United States and others can learn from the crisis and control borrowing, then the positive potential of global trade and finance may be restored.

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Letter From,
Jeremy Shapiro

In the United Kingdom, backlash against workers from other countries in the European Union is growing. Any measures to limit foreign labor, however, may threaten the future of the European common market.

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Essay, Nov/Dec 2008
Marc Levinson

The golden age of globalization is over due to slower, costlier, and less certain transportation. In retrospect, Americans may lament too little globalization, not too much.

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Review Essay, Jan/Feb 2009
Harold James

The current economic crisis may have one winner: the Chinese financial model, which--together with the IMF--holds the keys to fixing the problem.

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Review Essay, Jan/Feb 2009
Harold James

The current economic crisis may have one winner: the Chinese financial model, which--together with the IMF--holds the keys to fixing the problem.

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Essay, May/June 2008
Fareed Zakaria

Despite some eerie parallels between the position of the United States today and that of the British Empire a century ago, there are key differences. Britain's decline was driven by bad economics. The United States, in contrast, has the strength and dynamism to continue shaping the world -- but only if it can overcome its political dysfunction and reorient U.S. policy for a world defined by the rise of other powers.

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