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CIAO DATE: 03/01
Winter 2001
Letters
In Box
Articles
Think Again: Sovereignty by Stephen D. Krasner
Monetary unions, CNN, the Internet, bond markets, migration, and nongovernmental organizations-what's a sovereign state to do? Lighten up, for starters. Despite new challenges to nations' autonomy, the idea of sovereignty is alive and well. In fact, today's weakest governments are those that are most isolated.
The FP Interview: Meet the World's Top Cop
Why can't governments keep up with innovations in global crime? Ask Raymond Kendall, outgoing chief of Interpol, the outgunned, underpaid, and understaffed headquarters of the war against transnational criminals.
Essays: Prisoners of Geography by Ricardo Hausmann
Behind the failure of billions of dollars in aid and initiatives to help the world's poorest countries lurks a dirty little secret: It's not their policies, it's their latitude. Tropical, landlocked nations may never enjoy access to the markets and technologies they need to flourish in today's global economy.
Globalization at work: Measuring Globalization
Everyone talks about globalization as the defining trend of our era, but no one has tried to measure it-at least not until now. The A.T. Kearney/Foreign Policy Magazine Globalization Index TM ranks the most global nations and asks whether globalization is linked to inequality, corruption, or freedom.
Globalization at work:The Culture of Liberty by Mario Vargas Llosa
Cultural protectionism is on the rise, with politicians and intellectuals of all stripes decrying the alleged Americanization of the world. But globalization does not annihilate local and regional cultural identities. Rather, it liberates them from the ideological conformity of the nation-state.
Between the Lines: China's Dot-Communism
New Chinese Internet regulations reveal a government caught between encouraging the growth of e-commerce and limiting the infiltration of foreign ideas. By Shanthi Kalathil
Arguments
Keynes Versus Darwin by Peter Jay
Meet Mother Nature, the one business cycle the new economy can't outrun.
The Return of Microbialpolitik by David P. Fidler
Faced with the threat of infectious diseases, policymakers relearn that the globalization of public health is a matter of survival.
Give Hope a Headline by G. Pascal Zachary
Sometimes it pays to look on the bright side of international affairs.
Military Deglobalization? by Joseph S. Nye Jr.
Troops stationed overseas may be coming home, but new forms of global military interdependence are emerging.
Missing Links
New Economy by by Moisés Naím
High-tech companies may not yet realize it, but their success depends on the slow, lumbering process of multilateral diplomacy.
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