The world, it seemed, was getting flatter and flatter. Or was it spikier? In any case, oil was cheap, and the global economy was a time-crunching, electron-beeping, carbon-smoking, border-integrating network of trade and finance. The Berlin Wall came tumbling down and the world wide web connected the Central Asias and Romanias to the North Americas [...]
India, China, and the United States are players in a non-zero-sum economic game — or so hope Mona Sutphen and Nina Hachigian of the Center for American Progress.
This video would have been so much more compelling without the music track and so much B roll. Come on guys: These are smart, articulate women who don’t [...]
I was thinking in generalities today about Eastern Europe and the questions posed by economic development in the region (though I’ve never actually been there). There are economic, political, social, and cultural changes occurring in Eastern European states, like Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, and Turkey, as they relate to Western Europe and the European Union.
Daniel Buk writes:
What if the whole world learns to love each other? What if that interpersonal neuropsychological attachment is translated onto the international level? A global community might become possible via this. If the thesis is true, then even if we simply start opening up to other cultures in a more understanding and loving way, [...]