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That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back. By Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
October 9, 2011 – 7:22 am | Comments Off

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That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, …

The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India. By Siddhartha Deb. Bond Street Books.
September 4, 2011 – 5:26 pm | Comments Off

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The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India
by Siddhartha Deb
Toronto: Bond Street Books, 2011
Six years after leaving India, Siddhartha Deb returned on assignment for a newspaper. Working undercover …

Death by China: Confronting the Dragon — A Global Call to Action. By Peter Navarro and Greg Autry. Prentice Hall.
August 18, 2011 – 4:51 pm | Comments Off

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Death by China: Confronting the Dragon — A Global Call to Action
by Peter Navarro and Greg Autry
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2011
Soon to be the world’s largest economy, China …

ChinAmerica: The Uneasy Partnership That Will Change the World. By Handel Jones. McGraw-Hill.
June 27, 2011 – 7:33 pm | Comments Off

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ChinAmerica: The Uneasy Partnership That Will Change the World
by Handel Jones
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010
Conventional wisdom pits China against the United States in a war for economic supremacy. However, in ChinAmerica, …

Many Globalizations: Cultural Diversity in the Contemporary World. By Peter L. Berger and Samuel P. Huntington, eds. Oxford University Press.
March 29, 2011 – 9:54 pm | Comments Off

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Many Globalizations: Cultural Diversity in the Contemporary World
by Peter L. Berger and Samuel P. Huntington, eds
New York: Oxford University Press, 2002
Much discussed but poorly understood, globalization is praised as the answer …

Brazil on the Rise: The Story of a Country Transformed. By Larry Rohter. Palgrave Macmillan.
December 24, 2010 – 4:31 pm | Comments Off

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Brazil on the Rise: The Story of a Country Transformed
by Larry Rohter
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
An alluring land famous for samba, soccer, supermodels, and stunning tropical beaches, Brazil was described as …

Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power. By Robert D. Kaplan. Random House.
November 3, 2010 – 11:32 am | Comments Off

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Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
by Robert D. Kaplan
New York: Random House, 2010
On the world maps common in America, the Indian Ocean all but disappears. The Western …

The New Korea: An Inside Look at South Korea’s Economic Rise. By Myung Oak Kim and Sam Jaffe. AMACOM.
June 9, 2010 – 8:45 am | Comments Off

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The New Korea: An Inside Look at South Korea’s Economic Rise
by Myung Oak Kim and Sam Jaffe
New York: AMACOM, 2010
From the shattered, war-torn nation of the mid-twentieth century to the global …

A Cold Peace: America, Japan, Germany, and the Struggle for Supremacy . By Jeffrey E. Garten. Random House.
May 22, 2010 – 9:33 am | Comments Off

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A Cold Peace: America, Japan, Germany, and the Struggle for Supremacy
by Jeffrey E. Garten
New York: Random House, 1995
No issue may be more crucial to America’s standing in the world and …

China’s Megatrends: The 8 Pillars of a New Society. By John and Doris Naisbitt. HarperCollins Publishers.
January 25, 2010 – 9:31 am | Comments Off

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China’s Megatrends: The 8 Pillars of a New Society
by John and Doris Naisbitt
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010

A groundbreaking look at a new social-political model on the rise
John and Doris Naisbitt, longtime …

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