Global Trends, 2006
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Title: Global Progress Report, 2006
The world's economy continues to grow, as does the threat of nuclear proliferation. Democratization and antipoverty efforts made little progress this year, but biotechnology shows promise. Also includes "How Is the World Doing?", Current History's annual report card.
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Title: Requiem for the Bush Doctrine
Author: Andrew J. Bacevich
"The Iraq War has revealed that the armed forces possess nothing like the depth required to implement a policy of preventive war on a sustained basis."
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Title: The Decline of American Soft Power
Author: Joshua Kurlantzick
JOSHUA KURLANTZICK, a Current History contributing editor, is a special correspondent for The New Republic and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment.
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Title: Controlling Global Corruption: Are We There Yet?
Author: Michael Johnston
"Neoliberal reforms do not so much end corruption as privatize it."
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Title: Grand Goals, Modest Results: The UN in Search of Reform
Author: Jeffrey Laurenti
"Washington resists linking the political and military issues that Americans understand as 'security' with the economic and social issues arising from the deep poverty prevalent in four-fifths of the world's nations. Others think the linkage is obvious."
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Title: The "Greenless" Response to Global Warming
Author: Byron W. Daynes and Glen Sussman
"Rather than working with other leaders to modify the Kyoto Protocol, President Bush has devised his own haphazard alternative, the "Clear Skies Initiative." . . . [which] calls for voluntary compliance in reducing emissions."
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Title: The Month in Review
An international chronology of events in October 2005, country by country, day by day.
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Title: 2005 Index
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Title: A Statistical Snapshot of the World
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