 • 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
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Capitalism's Weakness
The crowning moment of the second half of the 20th century was the ending
of the Cold War which enabled the world to move forward. Finally American's
could thinks seriously about capitalism's weaknesses, but equally important
also to deal more rationally with the international arrangements so essential
to the world's stability. How far ahead could we have been on both counts
if we had not waster all those energies and resources since the late '40s
in a paranoid mode focusing on the fight against communism and the Soviet
Union? Caution: the real cost of all that should not be perceived as financial
or even as lost lives but rather as missed opportunities.
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