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The Double Edge of Globalization

Robert J. Samuelson is a columnist for Newsweek and The Washington Post and author of The American Dream in the Age of Entitlements (1996). He originally wrote this piece for a special series sponsored by the International Herald Tribune.

Boston - Globalization is a double-edged sword: a powerful vehicle that raises economic growth, spreads new technology and increases living standards in rich and poor countries alike, but also an immensely controversial process that assaults national sovereignty, erodes local culture and tradition and threatens economic and social instability.

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		Spring 2000
• 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		The Double Edge of Globalization Robert J. Samuelson is a columnist for Newsweek and The Washington Post and author of The American Dream in the Age of Entitlements (1996). He originally wrote this piece for a special series sponsored by the International Herald Tribune. Boston - Globalization is a double-edged sword: a powerful vehicle that raises economic growth, spreads new technology and increases living standards in rich and poor countries alike, but also an immensely controversial process that assaults national sovereignty, erodes local culture and tradition and threatens economic and social instability. back to index