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		Winter 1998
• 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		Global Fusion: Asian Ideals and Anglo-Saxon Norms The death of the Asian model has been greatly exaggerated. Despite the financial panic sweeping the region, the core characteristics of the model - group orientation, strong social values, high savings and investment in education - remain intact. The present crisis should thus be seen not as a fatal ambush of globalization, but as the passage to a more mature interdependence that will fuse the Asian ideal with the best Anglo-Saxon norms of political accountability and transparency in business practices. back to index