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		<title>Greek Mess, Euromess, Western Nations Mess, World Mess?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I. Wallerstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone is discussing what Fortune magazine is calling the &#8220;Greek maelstrom&#8221; and everyone is pointing the finger at someone else. Whose fault is it? The Greek government is accused of cheating and allowing Greeks to live beyond their means. The European Union is accused of having created an impossible structure for the euro.
Or is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chaos as an Everyday Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I. Wallerstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know you&#8217;re living in a chaotic situation when (1) the mainstream  media are constantly surprised by what is happening; (2) short-term  predictions by various pundits go in radically different directions and are stated with many reserves; (3)  the Establishment dares to say things or use words that were previously  taboo; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The United States Misreads Brazil&#8217;s World Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I. Wallerstein</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iwallerstein.com/?p=1177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When the United States first realized circa 1970 that its hegemonic dominance was being threatened by the growing economic (and hence geopolitical) strength of western Europe and Japan, it changed its posture, seeking to prevent western Europe and Japan from taking too independent a position in world affairs.]]></description>
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		<title>WHAT COLD WAR IN ASIA? AN INTERPRETATIVE ESSAY</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I. Wallerstein</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iwallerstein.com/?p=1184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this essay I would like to review this narrative and what it is supposed to tell us. It tells us that the Second World War was a war that was started by Germany and Japan as aggressor nations that sought to conquer other nations. They did fairly well at first, but then resistance to them grew stronger. In 1941, both the Soviet Union and the United States entered the war against Germany, and the coalition took on the name of the United Nations. The three countries in this alliance that were most signify cant militarily were the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union. They were called the “Big Three,” and together they won the Second World War.]]></description>
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		<title>How to Think About China</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I. Wallerstein</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iwallerstein.com/?p=1175</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If one asks throughout the world the question, what do you think of  the United States as a country and a world power, you will get very  clear answers. Everyone has an opinion &#8211; North and South, rich and poor, men and women, politically on the right  or the left, young and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Concerns: First Germany, Now Japan?</title>
		<link>http://www.iwallerstein.com/u-s-concerns-first-germany-now-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I. Wallerstein</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iwallerstein.com/?p=1171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The geopolitical strategy of the United States after 1945 was based on what seemed to be a solid rock - control over its two defeated enemies in the Second World War, Germany and Japan. For a long time, each country was governed by a single conservative party - the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Germany and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in Japan. The two parties pursued a policy of close alliance with the United States and faithful support of its geopolitical positions.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama as a Black President</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I. Wallerstein</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iwallerstein.com/?p=1166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Congressional Black Caucus has been growing impatient with President Obama, and this political strain is now leaking out to the press. The Caucus members feel that Obama hasn't paid enough attention to the fact that the current economic difficulties have had greater impact on African-American and other minority groups than on the rest of the population, and that therefore something extra needs to be done for them.

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver is quoted as saying: "Obama has tried desperately to stay away from race, and all of us understand what he's doing. But when you have such a disproportionate number of African-Americans unemployed, it would be irresponsible not to direct attention and resources to the people who are receiving the greatest level of pain."]]></description>
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		<title>Western Europe and Russia &#8211; Coming Together</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I. Wallerstein</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iwallerstein.com/?p=1156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The slow process of creating a lasting geopolitical alliance of western Europe and Russia has a long history, which is slowly maturing. It may be traced to the visit of President Charles De Gaulle to the Soviet Union in 1944, where he signed the Franco-Soviet Treaty of Alliance and Mutual Assistance. It was a way to reassert France's centrality in European politics and to take his distance from his somewhat reluctant allies, the United States and Great Britain. For De Gaulle, geopolitical interests overrode ideological differences.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Bush, and Latin American Coups</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I. Wallerstein</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iwallerstein.com/?p=1147</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Something strange is happening in Latin America. The Latin American right forces are poised to do better during the U.S. presidency of Barack Obama than they did during the eight years of George W. Bush. Bush led a far right regime that was totally out of sympathy with popular forces in Latin America. Obama, on the other hand, is leading a centrist regime that is trying to replicate the "good neighbor policy" which Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed as a way of signaling the end of direct U.S. military intervention in Latin America.]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan: Heads You Lose, Tails You Lose</title>
		<link>http://www.iwallerstein.com/afghanistan-heads-you-lose-tails-you-lose/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwallerstein.com/afghanistan-heads-you-lose-tails-you-lose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>I. Wallerstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The war in Afghanistan is a war in which whatever the United States does now, or that President Obama does now, both the United States and Obama will lose. The country and its president are in a situation of perfect lockjaw.]]></description>
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