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Looking Backward and Forward : Policy Issues in the Twenty-first Century
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- Language
- English
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- 1st ed
- Stanford : Hoover Institution Press, 2008
- ©2008
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- 1 online resource (178 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9780817948733, 9780817948719, 9780817948719
- OCLC
- ocn839305527
- Front Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part One - China -- 1. Capitalism, Chinese Style -- 2. Foreign Investment Leverages China's Growth -- 3. Fault Lines in China's Economic Terrain -- 4. China's Currency Dilemma and How to Resolve It -- 5. More about the Chinese Currency -- 6. Two Major Problems Confronting China: One Hard, the Other Harder -- 7. U.S.-China Relations: Mostly Partners, Sometimes Rivals -- Part Two - Other Asia -- 8. Japan's Comfortable Stagnation -- 9. Dealing with North Korea: Unilateralism, Bilateralism, or Multilateralism? -- 10. Kim Jong-Il's Financial Bind -- Part Three - Other Regions -- 11. Europe's Unilateralism May Have a Brighter Side -- 12. Absent Weapons Don't Imply Faulty Intelligence -- 13. Resolving the UN Dilemma -- 14. What if Iraq Had Not Been Invaded? -- 15. How Sunni Capitalism Can Trump Sunni Insurgency -- 16. Signs of Regress and Progress in Russia's Economy -- Part Four - The Global View -- 17. The Case for Selective Unilateralism -- 18. Whether Multilateralism Is Better or Worse than Unilateralism Is, Well, Situation-Dependent -- 19. Traditional Allies Are Not Permanent Allies -- 20. The Principal Global Imbalance Lies Elsewhere -- Part Five - The United States -- 21. Doomsday for the Doomsayers? -- 22. The Mythology Surrounding Energy Security -- 23. Efficient Equity Markets Require Smarter Investors -- 24. Public Diplomacy: How to Think about and Improve It (coauthored with Brian Rosen) -- 25. Liberals and Conservatives: Who's What and Where? -- About the Author -- Index