The World is Flat
The World is Flat—A Brief History of the 21st CenturyA good read about foreign policy & economics. When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004, what will they say was the exceptionally crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization? And with this flattening of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order to stay in place, has the world gotten too small and too swift for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner? Good condition, shows some wear—all pages clean.