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		1997
ON THE BRINK: EUROPEAN CRISIS AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY the state, the net and global governance From Tiananmen to Tahrir Square WIKILEAKS AND THE PERILS OF EXTREME GLASNOST REBAlANCING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY THE ZERO NUKES CONUNDRUM GOOGLE VERSUS CONFUCIUS THE END OF HISTORY: 20 YEARS LATER DIALOGUES ON CIVILIZATION THE GREAT REFUSAL OBAMA'S SMART POWER CRASH THE RETURN OF THE MIDDLE KINGDOM IN A POST-AMERICA WORLD THE RISE OF THE REST 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-NATIONAL LITERATURE COLLAPSE OR MASSIVE CHANGE? THE RISE AND FALL OF AMERICA'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 POWER OF CHINA & INDIA THE BUSH DOCTRINE FAIRNESS IN A FRAGILE     WORLD AMERICA'S MIGHT ISLAM IN THE 21ST CENTURY ANTIGLOBOS HOT PEACE MODUS VIVENDI LOOKING NORTH FROM WELL HAVING TO  WELL 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 ASIAN RENAISSANCE SLOW IS BEAUTIFUL ECLIPSE OF THE BIG PICTURE AFTER THE END OF HISTORY THE EAST IS RED AGAIN HALF-A-HEGEMON THIRD WAVE TERRORISM HEIMAT Fall 1987 Winter 1987 Spring 1986 Fall-Winter '84-'85 Spring 1984		China: Between a Hard Line and the Hard Rock Cafe In one of the more acid obituaries the appeared when Deng died, dissident physical Fan Lizhi wrote that the Paramount leader who succeeded Mao had indeed transformed China - from the rule of one man to the rule of corrupt men. Now that Deng is gone, China may well be poised to take the next leap forward from the rule of the corrupted men of the Communist Party to the rule of law. back to index