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Shelf Life: Bring Down the Walls.
If your heart beats with benevolence, and specifically with a high ethical commitment to raising up the poor people of the earth, you should be going to pro -globalization rallies. That's the contention of Swedish activist Johan Norberg in his marvelous new book In Defense of Global Capitalism (Cato, 331 pp., $12.95). Norberg, a fellow at the Swedish think tank Timbro, has compiled a detailed and convincing case that capitalism indeed offers the greatest hope for improving the material well-being of the world's poor. The facts he adduces about globalization are quite compelling:
Between 1965 and 1998, the average world citizen's income practically doubled, from ...
- Organizing for Foreign Policy Crises: Presidents, Advisers, and the Management...
- Magazine article from: American Political Science Review Scott, James M. June 1, 1998 700+ words
...have organized and managed advisory groups during foreign policy crises and the ways that these groups, so structured, performed...on which he bases his analysis), Organizing for Foreign Policy Crises would be even stronger if Haney had included more in the...
- Bush faces a host of foreign policy crises.
- Newspaper article from: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) August 20, 2003 700+ words
...suicide bomber blew up a bus in Jerusalem. American presidents don't necessarily go looking for foreign policy crises, but foreign policy crises always manage to find them. "Not a great fun time to be president," said Ruth Wedgwood, an international...
- NEWSWEEK: Book Excerpt: 'Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 3, 2003 700+ words
...Henry Kissinger's new memoir "Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Foreign Policy Crises," reveals conversations surrounding two of the most dramatic foreign policy crises of the last 30 years: the 1973 Yom Kippur War and the fall of Saigon in...
- Crisis: the Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Middle East Quarterly Rabinovich, Abraham September 22, 2004 700+ words
Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises. By Henry Kissinger. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. 564 pp. $30 ($18, paper). In these gleanings from his...
- Heritage panel slams Clinton's handling of foreign policy crises.(Nation)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Carter, Tom September 11, 1998 700+ words
The Clinton administration's ability to handle a range of foreign policy crises was called into question yesterday by conservative analysts, who said the scandal-riven president is distracted and hobbled...
- CLINTON SCRAMBLES FOR WAYS TO DEAL WITH FOREIGN POLICY...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) June 4, 1998 700+ words
...risks of becoming an overbearing global superpower. Instead it scrambles after a strategy to accommodate a set of foreign policy crises that have spun out of Washington's control in a matter of weeks. The nuclear tests in the Asian subcontinent arrive as...
- More foreign-policy crises loom for U.S.(Washington PULSE)
- Magazine article from: National Defense Erwin, Sandra I. September 1, 2005 700+ words
If the U.S. government needs a truly compelling reason to aggressively tackle the AIDS crisis in Africa, now it has one: Al Qaeda leaders are considering recruiting suicide bombers among the terminally ill, who would have nothing to lose, said Rear Adm. Chris Parry, director of joint doctrine and
- The Captive Press: Foreign Policy Crises and the First Amendment.
- Magazine article from: Independent Review Kwitny, Jonathan September 22, 1997 700+ words
As you read Ted Galen Carpenter's The Captive Press, you get the idea that "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of the press" (the First Amendment) is a lot like "Thou shalt not kill": good advice, frequently ignored, especially in wartime. Carpenter's message is that restrictions on
