In the United States we like to think that globalization and the integration of national economies will gradually lead to the creation of a global public in which people everywhere come to think of themselves as sharing common goals, public… Continue Reading
Recently all eyes have been watching the fate of Google in China, but, out of sight, the cultural competition between China and America has picked up the pace. So what is the score now? In summer 2009, China’s central government… Continue Reading
Economic recession. National security and foreign wars. Health care. Global warming. America is currently facing many policy issues that require long-term solutions, ones demanding intelligence, creativity and resources from future generations of Americans. How are we preparing young Americans to… Continue Reading
Is President Obama “advertising weakness” in Asia? Conservative critics, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, have accused Obama of practicing a destructive “diplomacy of deference” in which American supremacy overseas is weakened by inept public diplomacy. Obama’s bow to the… Continue Reading
Shanghai is now truly a global city. Not because it is the financial center of the country that holds an estimated $2 trillion in U.S. currency and assets. And not because next year it will host the first World Expo… Continue Reading
In the press release for the 2009 Nobel Prize in economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences reminds all of us that if we want to study, use and prescribe markets, we have to keep in mind the ways that… Continue Reading
This week the eyes of world may be focused on New York, Tehran and Copenhagen, but China’s leaders very much hope that on the morning of October 1, Beijing time, you will tune in to catch their celebrations of the… Continue Reading