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...There is a great appetite for more joint activities,” says School of Public Health Dean Julio Frenk. “And global health is an enormous vehicle for that...

Author: By Elias J. Groll and Noah S. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: A Blank Slate | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...Global health spans it all,” says Cutler, who serves on HIGH’s executive committee. Without the collaboration of faculty across schools, “it’s kind of like seeing the world only through one color—you just miss...

Author: By Elias J. Groll and Noah S. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: A Blank Slate | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...last Harvard graduating class of the 20th century faced what seemed to be an optimistic future, premised on what was then a prosperous and conflict-free world order. Not only was the Cold War long past, but also the European Union was flourishing as the emblem of post-nationalist global cooperation, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization had launched an international coalition to bring order to the Balkans. To be sure, Americans and other innocent people had lost lives to terrorism, but it was far from America’s shores. At home, the Internet was fueling explosive stock growth...

Author: By Michael Chertoff | Title: Graduating into the First Decade | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

This breakdown in global security has been accompanied by an even more dramatic reversal of global economic fortunes. In early 2000, the dot-com bubble burst. More significantly, the rise in asset values that supported much global prosperity turned out to be an illusion largely fueled by easy credit; when the bubble burst, highly leveraged speculative positions reversed gear, and the international financial system came uncomfortably close to crashing. Even more troubling, the ongoing Greek debt crisis has suggested that weaknesses in sovereign debt may trigger another, even more profound global financial meltdown...

Author: By Michael Chertoff | Title: Graduating into the First Decade | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

International relations: Global security can no longer be preserved through focus on nation-states alone. The spectrum of transnational threats, from terrorists to international drug cartels, must be an additional subject of national-security focus. The traditional tools of war fighting and statecraft must be blended with the skills of development, policing, cultural studies, and institution building...

Author: By Michael Chertoff | Title: Graduating into the First Decade | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

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