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By existing mainly within this safe social space, students studying abroad drastically reduce their ability to understand another culture. Whenever they experience something significant, it is filtered and interpreted by several different like-minded perspectives. Such experiences themselves are limited because, in another university environment, students tend to drift toward...
Russia is looking to the post-Georgia strategic environment, and the change of administration in Washington, as a moment to press forward with its own initiatives to reengineer the European security system along post-Cold War lines, eclipsing NATO, which is, after all, an institution based on Cold War strategic...
And, says Wilson, economic concerns are reshaping the strategic environment. "The arrival and deepening of the global economic crisis has superseded a lot of things spoken about since August, and is making compromise a lot easier all around," he says. "People realize cooperation today will largely determine who the big...
In addition, the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs due to the disappearance of a major manufacturer - not to mention the blow that would be dealt to U.S. consumer confidence by the bankruptcy of an iconic brand - would mean even fewer cars sold. That would take another bite out...
A few years ago, as the financial storms that would come to define his tenure were gathering off center stage, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson viewed the economic relationship between the U.S. and China as his biggest challenge - and his biggest opportunity. He would sit down twice a year with his...