American leadership in the information age / Dave McCurdy -- The spirit of the age / Gary Hart -- Is anybody out there listening? communicating foreign policy in the post-cold war era / Antony J. Blinken -- Updating our conception of trade leadership / Albert Fishlow and Patrick J. DeSouza -- Economic transformation and political reaction: globalization in historical context / Brian VanDeMark -- Donations and double standards: trade and global public integrity / Deroy Murdock -- Taking sanctions into the twenty-first century / M. Diana Helweg -- U.S. international financial policy / Jeffrey R. Shafer -- The internationalization of the social security problem / Albert Fishlow and Patrick J. DeSouza -- U.S. capital markets leadership in the changing global economy / J. Carter Beese Jr. -- Dollarization / Julie T. Katzman -- Telecommunications / Eugene A. Sekulow -- The foreign policy of the Internet / Robert D. Hormats -- International venture capital: the role of start-up financing in the United States, Europe, and Asia / Jeffrey D. Nuechterlein -- Danger.com: national security in a wired world / Lawrence Greenberg -- Economic dimensions of security in Russia / John E. Tedstrom -- Changing China: a search for perspective / James E. Bass -- Middle market capitalism in China / Nicholas Rockefeller -- Mainstreaming the Americas / Eric Farnsworth -- Conclusion / Patrick J. DeSouza and Laura Hills