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Beckert Tracks Cotton Trail: Uses its History to Study Globalization: by Powell, Alvin; Publisher: Harvard University Gazette; Publication Type: Magazine Article; Sven Beckert has been on a four-year international history hunt, tracking the trail of cotton through dusty archives from India to Argentina to see what it can tell him about one of globalization's...; Published Date: November 2005 More

Fruit that Falls Far from the Tree: by Kapur, Devesh; Publisher: Economist; Publication Type: Newspaper Article; Might poor countries gain when their best and brightest leave? In the 2002 football World Cup, France, the reigning world champions, suffered a humiliating defeat to unfancied Senegal. All 11...; Published Date: November 2005 More

Asia is in Danger of Repeating Europe's Mistakes: by Kaiser, Karl; Publisher: Financial Times; Publication Type: Op-ed; Just like Europe in the late 19th century, east Asia is experiencing a period of extraordinary industrialisation, economic growth and arms build-up. Warships have been deployed to mark positions on...; Published Date: October 2005 More

The World Watches as America Attempts its Restoration: by Walt, Stephen M.; Publisher: Financial Times; Publication Type: Op-ed; Americans normally shrug off newspaper headlines overseas, unconcerned by what the rest of the world thinks of us. But the events of recent months have turned a not-so-flattering mirror back upon...; Published Date: October 2005 More

Koizumi's new party: by Estévez-Abe, Margarita; Publisher: International Herald Tribune; Publication Type: Op-ed; Another victory for Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party. What's new? This time a lot. Japanese politics has changed forever. This month's election was not just another victory for the LDP...; Published Date: September 2005 More

Beyond the Gaza Disengagment: by Kelman, Herbert C.; Publisher: Boston Globe; Publication Type: Op-ed; Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to disengage from the Gaza Strip by evacuating Israeli settlements there and withdrawing troops is scheduled to begin today. Advocates of a negotiated...; Published Date: August 2005 More

Beyond the Gaza Disengagement: by Kelman, Herbert C.; Publisher: Boston Globe; Publication Type: Op-ed; Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to disengage from the Gaza Strip by evacuating Israeli settlements there and withdrawing troops is scheduled to begin today. Advocates of a negotiated...; Published Date: August 2005 More

Think Again: Homeland Security: by Friedman, Benjamin M.; Publisher: Foreign Policy; Publication Type: Magazine Article; For the vast majority of Americans, the chances of dying in a terrorist attack are close to zero. There’s a higher probability that you’ll die by falling off a ladder than getting mixed up in...; Published Date: July 2005 More

China must reduce its excessive savings rate: by Hausmann, Ricardo; Publisher: Financial Times; Publication Type: Op-ed; Much of the recent debate on global economic imbalances has centred on Chinese exchange-rate policy. China has a balance of payments surplus. The People's Bank of China has been buying some $20bn a...; Published Date: June 2005 More

To win the war on terror, you need the carrot: by Nye, Joseph S., Jr.; Publisher: Independent; Publication Type: Op-ed; If hard power is characterised by the use of military force to project our will, then the essence of soft power lies in values, in our culture and in the way we handle ourselves internationally....; Published Date: June 2005 More