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Looking backward and forward : policy issues in the twenty-first century /
This collection of twenty-five essays written over the past five years by international economic policy expert Charles Wolf Jr. covers a range of worldwide economic, political, security, and diplomatic issues. Wolf looks at the challenges facing the United States at home and around the globe includi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Hoover Institution Press,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Hoover Institution Press publication ;
560. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- China. Capitalism, Chinese style ; Foreign investment leverages China's growth ; Fault lines in China's economic terrain ; China's currency dilemma and how to resolve it ; More about the Chinese currency ; Two major problems confronting China: one hard, the other harder ; U.S.-China relations: mostly partners, sometimes rivals
- Other Asia. Japan's comfortable stagnation ; Dealing with North Korea: unilateralism, bilateralism, or multilateralism? ; Kim Jong-Il's financial bind
- Other regions. Europe's unilateralism may have a brighter side ; Absent weapons don't imply faulty intelligence ; Resolving the UN dilemma ; What if Iraq had not been invaded ; How Sunni capitalism can trump Sunni insurgency ; Signs of regress and progress in Russia's economy
- The global view. The case for selective unilateralism ; Whether multilateralism is better or worse than unilateralism is, well, situation-dependent ; Traditional allies are not permanent allies ; The principal global imbalance lies elsewhere
- The United States. Doomsday for the doomsayers? ; The mythology surrounding energy security ; Efficient equity markets require smarter investors ; Public diplomacy: how to think about and improve it (coauthored with Brian Rosen) ; Liberals and conservatives: who's what and where?