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Understanding a misunderstood generation

THE FIRST LARGE-SCALE STUDY OF HOW MILLENNIAL ATTITUDES AND ACTIONS VARY ACROSS THE GLOBE, AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR EMPLOYERS. Welcome to the Millennial Series Universum joined forces with INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute and the HEAD Foundation to investigate and question what has become conventional wisdom about Millennials. By conventional wisdom we mean the statements (even…

The World Empire of America: The Fourth Rome

 VLADIVOSTOK, Russia — What is the nature of the modern world order? Answers to this question are incalculably many. However, the one provided by Salvatore Babones, a native New Yorker and currently a professor at the University of Sydney, has recently struck me as probably the most compelling. Challenging the conventional wisdom, Babones argues that…

Merkel and Hollande’s conflicted loyalties mark limits of NATO’s and Washington’s influence

  Asia | The State of the Century     Secretary of State John Kerry’s remarks in Kiev last week that the United States is considering providing weapons to the embattled Ukraine government of President Petro Poroshenko threatens to ignite a political crisis in Europe that could have profound implications for the U.S. Not since…

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A ‘New` Type Of Great Power Relationship

In the absence of a common narrative shared by the U.S. and China, the two nations are likely to drift more rapidly apart. Trust builds on itself just as distrust builds on itself as well, compounding into deep enmity over time. BEIJING — I have watched carefully the evolution of China’s concept of a “New…