Somalia Remains Mired in Failure
March 23, 2009
I have posted a couple of blogs about Somalia in the past [Somalia — Poster Child of Failed States and More on Somalia]. In the first post, I talked about the piracy
Category: Globalization
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Belief and Business
March 20, 2009
As president and CEO of a company that conducts business internationally, I must be aware of cultural differences in how business is conducted in the countries I visit. Although most business people
Trading Up or Trading Down?
March 19, 2009
The current financial recession (which is quickly becoming the Great Recession) has exposed people to topics that would not have been the subjects of casual conversation in previous decades. One of those
North Korea’s Reckless hold on Power
March 17, 2009
North Korea apparently finds great joy in poking sticks into the eyes of more developed countries. The strategy it uses most often is to bring a situation to the brink of confrontation,
Iran and the Future
March 16, 2009
In an earlier post entitled Iran and the Bomb, I discussed opinions by New York Times‘ op-ed columnist and my colleague Tom Barnett about how to deal with Iran. Despite the current
What’s ahead for the Middle Class?
March 13, 2009
American politicians continually claim they are watching out for the middle class. But few pundits can agree on what constitutes “the middle class.” A Wikipedia entry about the middle class recognizes the
Globalization’s Progress — Slowed or in Retreat?
March 12, 2009
No matter what standard one might use to measure the extent of the current financial crisis, all the results confirm what the average consumer has known for a long time — we
Job Creation and State Capitalism
March 9, 2009
State capitalism is defined as an economic system that is primarily capitalistic but in which there is some degree of government ownership of the means of production. With the huge stimulus packages
Kissinger on Afghanistan
February 27, 2009
Henry Kissinger, who has labored in academia’s ivory towers as well as Foggy Bottom’s government offices, remains, at age 86, keenly interested in world events and U.S. responses to them. Never shy
Fixing a Broken World
February 25, 2009
The Economist, in a recent International section article, asserted that “in almost any discussion of world affairs, there is one thing on which doves and hawks invariably agree: much more needs to
