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Thursday, December 16, 2004

60 Words or Less, Kingmi's Thoughtful Global Question of Yesterday

No Winner Yet! Kingmi's Thoughtful Global Question of the Day -- Globalization is defined as the capacity for a nation to integrate its economy with the world, and to accept the connectivity pressures -- ideas, services, mass media -- that go with it. Globalization 1 started after World War 1, and... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Kingmi's Thoughtful Global Question of the Day -- Globalization is defined

as the capacity for a nation to integrate its economy with the world, and to accept the connectivity pressures -- ideas, services, mass media -- that go with it. Globalization 1 started after World War 1, and included America and Europe. Globalization 2 was based on re-building Germany and Japan.... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Kingmi's Thoughtful Global Question of the Day -- Deaths due to terrorism

between 1987 -- 1994 were 9,575 global casualties. From 1995 -- 2003 this figure tripled to 27, 608. Why? Sign in to see full entry.

Kingmi's Thoughtful Global Question of the Day -- Who was the Secretary

who coined the phrase "Muatually Assured Destruction" (MAD) and assured global peace for half a century. Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, December 13, 2004

Kingmi' Thoughtful Global Question of the Day: Why is it important to

realize that the cold war really ended in 1973, not 1989? --Barnett (2004) Sign in to see full entry.

Kingmi's Thoughtful Global Question of the Day -- The first truly global

threat the world faced expo facto of the 1989 collapse of the Soviet Bloc was a software virus. What was the pentagon's role in countering this threat? *Barnett (2004) Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, December 12, 2004

Kingmi's Thoughtful Global Question of the Day: The US Military Performed

brilliantly in Afghanistan. Now they are engaged in a guerrilla war in Iraq. Who is doing the thinking when it takes 20 months to equip materiele with protective steel plating? Macro problem-solving on the world-wide financial and accounting problems at the pentagon, as well as global positioning of... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, December 11, 2004

Kingmi's Thoughtful Global Quesiton of the Day: Barnett (2004) states that

pre-9/11 American military actions, Bosnia-Kosovo, Haiti, pinprick strikes into Sudan, etc. were the actions of a global fireman -- putting out international fires. Thinking back to the terrorist strikes that were taking place during this time, beginning with the first World Trade Center bombing in... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, December 10, 2004

Kingmi's Thoughtfull Global Question of the Day (from Barnett, 2004)

"The terrorist attacks of 9/11 simply revealed the yawning gap between the military we built to win the Cold War and the different one we need to build in order to secure globalization's ultimate goal -- the end of war as we know it!" Agree? Sign in to see full entry.

Kingmi's Thoughtful Global Question of the Day: Thomas Barnett Wrote a

book for the 21st Century entitled, The Pentagon's New Map. He poses this question to us: How has the world changed since the fall of the Berlin Wall? Are we safer? Sign in to see full entry.

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