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 • POST GLOBALIZATION• COMMENTARIES 2001-2007• MADE IN CHINA• THE TWO SOULS OF TURKEY• THE NEW GLOBAL CINEMA• MAKING GLOBALIZATION WORK• DE-GLOBALIZE THE JIHAD• THE THIRD WAVE'S THIRD WAY• PLANET OF SLUMS• THE GLOBAL IDEOLOGY OF FEAR • THE OTHER• POST-NATIONALLITERATURE • COLLAPSE OR MASSIVECHANGE? • THE RISE AND FALL OFAMERICA'S SOFT POWER • THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION• PUBLIC DIPLOMACY• THE HEADSCARF CONTROVERSY• SCULPTURE AND THE NEW SCIENCE • BIOTECH AND THE NEW BABEL • WAR THROUGH THE BACK DOOR • ANTIAMERICANISM• THE RISING SOFT POWEROF CHINA & INDIA • THE BUSH DOCTRINE• FAIRNESS IN A FRAGILEWORLD • AMERICA'S MIGHT• ISLAM IN THE 21ST CENTURY• ANTIGLOBOS• HOT PEACE• MODUS VIVENDI• LOOKING NORTH• FROM WELL HAVING TOWELL BEING • POST-HUMAN HISTORY• GLOBAPHOBIA• THE GLOBAL MIND• AFTER KOSOVO• FROM VIETNAM TO KOSOVO• DEGLOBALIZATION?• THE RISE OF THE MEDIA-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX • BOOM [NUCLEAR] AND[BUST] ECONOMIC IN ASIA • BEYOND CAPITALISM• ASIAN CRISIS• CHINA: THE ASIANRENAISSANCE • SLOW IS BEAUTIFUL• ECLIPSE OF THE BIGPICTURE • AFTER THE END OFHISTORY • THE EAST IS RED AGAIN• HALF-A-HEGEMON• THIRD WAVE TERRORISM• HEIMAT• Fall 1987• Winter 1987• Spring 1986• Fall-Winter '84-'85• Spring 1984 |
Socialism's Fate Awaits the Welfare State Less than a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall it looks like socialism's fate also awaits the welfare state. The same market-based global technological revolution that toppled the obsolete communist systems now swinging its wrecking ball at work, wages and welfare in the West. From evil empire to the good corporation, all that is centralized, standardized and routinized - in short, all in the mold of bureaucratic industrialism - has come under siege. Social benefits, once as assured as death and taxes,
are in doubt everywhere. This is as true of Social Security and Medicare
in the United States as it is of the six-week vacation in Germany. It
has also become a fact of our harsh new reality that the planetary pool
of low-wage workers and world-scale competition can knock out established
industries and entrepreneurial upstarts alike if they fail to remain perpetually
on the cutting edge.
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