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• Technology redefines talents

  Published: July 20, 2007, 9:57 am

  Tags: Blc07, Communication Tools, Digital Divide, Socialisation, Yong Zhao, Assessment, Blc07, China, Economy, Future, Globalisation, Globalization, Mcdonalds, Starbucks

  High Definition television is great, an advancement in technology that makes multimedia seem even more real. But it's also redefining who is going to be a television star, as some personalities become unusable when every pore can be seen - hi def becomes dicey. The industrial revolution made Herbert Spencer in 1859 design an American school

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• Advantages of Backwardness Lessons for Social Europe from the American Labour Movement

  Published: August 12, 2007, 7:39 pm

  Tags: Globalisation, European Social Model, Us Politics, Trade Unions, Industrial Relations, Labour, Politics, Trade Union

  By Lowell Turner The European Union has many admirers around the world, including here in the United States, in the neoliberal heartland. Many of us view the idea, if it is not always the reality, of Social Europe as a benchmark for human-centered economic integration in a global economy. We look to our “old European” friends for

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• Time to Shape Globalisation

  Published: July 23, 2007, 10:44 am

  Tags: Economic Policy, Globalisation, Financial Times, Globalization, Poll

  get the positive shaping of Globalisation on the political agenda. The gains of Globalisation need to be spread more widely. If politicians do not wake up and smell the coffee they will have a hard time in future to prevent an anti-globalisation backlash, which would also destroy positive Globalisation effects. source:

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• Gordon Brown's EU Policy

  Published: June 26, 2007, 11:47 am

  Tags: Eu Politics, British Labour Party, Globalisation, European Social Model, Gordon Brown, Labour, News, Politics

  unqualified enthusiasm for globalisation. Eric Shaw is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Stirling University

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• Europeanizing Corporate Taxation to Regain National Tax Policy Autonomy

  Published: June 20, 2007, 6:45 pm

  Tags: Eu Politics, Globalisation, National Autonomy, Politics, Tax

  By Christian Kellermann, Thomas Rixen & Susanne Uhl As a reaction to the German corporate tax reform, the English and Dutch governments also announced tax reductions. This demonstrates once again that tax competition is a very serious constraint on national tax policies. All over Europe, politicians argue that tax competition compels them to

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• Becoming Economic Citizens

  Published: September 18, 2007, 9:45 am

  Tags: Economic Policy, Globalisation, European Social Model, Business, Inequality, Democracy, Economic, Economy, Politics

  In the general debate about globalisation, it is a widely held assumption that the scope of action of democratic governments is deteriorating due to advancing economic integration. The bringing down of trade barriers, the shift to a more service based economy and innovations in ICTs have led to business operations going further beyond national

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• 5 Myths About Sick Old Europe

  Published: October 9, 2007, 1:20 am

  Tags: Transatlantic Relations, Economic Policy, Eu Politics, Globalisation, European Social Model, Us Politics, Business, Inequality, News, Politics

  By Steven Hill In the global economy, today’s winners can become tomorrow’s losers in a twinkling, and vice versa. Not so long ago, American pundits and economic analysts were snidely touting U.S. economic superiority to the “sick old man” of Europe. What a difference a few months can make. Today, with the stock market

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• Supercapitalism

  Published: October 11, 2007, 1:04 am

  Tags: Economic Policy, Globalisation, Business, Economics, Politics, Robert Reich, Supercapitalism

  Watch Robert Reich, Bill Clinton’s former Secretary of Labor, lecture about his new book “Supercapitalism”.

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• Is Political Responsiveness Dead?

  Published: October 13, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Globalisation, Political Systems, Business, Capitalism, Democracy, News, Politics

  largely unregulated economic globalisation for quite some time now. We have read time and again about growing inequalities within and between countries, eroding governmental capacities to act, undermining social security and tax systems, putting pressure on wages and adjusting virtually every policy field to perceived economic necessities. The

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• Progressive Foreign Policy

  Published: October 18, 2007, 11:58 pm

  Tags: Globalisation, International Relations, Foreign Policy, David Held, Foreign Policy, Politics, Progressive

  By David Held and David Mepham This short essay is concerned with the future direction of foreign policy, a subject explored at greater length in our edited volume, Progressive Foreign Policy (published at the end of August by Polity Press). The essay aims to define a distinctively progressive perspective on foreign policy and to defend this

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• Rediscovering Thomas Jefferson

  Published: October 28, 2007, 11:33 pm

  Tags: Political Theory, Globalisation, Jefferson, Politics

  these thoughts in times of Globalisation: “I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the

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• Losing our Way in the New Century: The Future of the Middle Class

  Published: November 13, 2007, 9:20 pm

  Tags: Economic Policy, Globalisation, Inequality, Elections, Economics, Inequality, Krugman, Politics

  Watch Princeton economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman speak on the issue of the “Future of the Middle Class” at the Commonwealth Club of California, touching a series of contemporary political and economic issues. The talk is based on his new book “The Conscience of a Liberal”.

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• Globalisation - Making China More Westernised

  Published: November 15, 2007, 4:26 pm

  Tags: China, Adventurers, Anywhere, Attitudes, Beijing, Butter, Colourful, Conversations, Crowded, Culture, Encounters, Enlightenment, Globalisation, Jobs, Jokes, Latest, Lhasa, Looking, Making, Romantic, Sandy, Sexual, Sips, Spiritual, Swap, Tales, Tibet, Twentysomethings, Unthinkable

  "Scored yet?' That was the first question from several young adventurers crowded around a table at a bar in Lhasa, T read more

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• A Leader without Followers? The United States in World Politics after Bush

  Published: November 15, 2007, 6:45 pm

  Tags: Transatlantic Relations, Globalisation, Us Politics, International Relations, Presidential Election 2009, Bush, International Relations, Politics

  Below you have the chance to watch the video of a recent Global Policy Institute seminar titled “A Leader without Followers? The United States in World Politics after Bush”. The speaker was Barry Buzan, Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics. The video also includes a response by Dr David Carlton from

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• High hopes for reform as G20 meeting begins

  Published: November 17, 2007, 7:28 am

  Tags: Business Economics And Finance, Globalisation, International Aid And Trade, Agreements And Treaties, South Africa

  Finance ministers from the world's largest 20 economies have begun talks in South Africa focusing on reforming the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

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