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44 essays and conversations with world leaders taken from Nathan Gardels publications New Perspectives Quarterly journal and Global Viewpoint offering a clear perspective on modern civilization and where we are headed.

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• Foreword
• Preface
• Part I The Parted Paths of Postcolonialism
• 1 One World, two Civilizations
• 2 State, Father, and God in the South
• 3 God Is Not a Head of State
• 4 Islam's Second Awakening
• 5 When Allah Meets Galileo
• 6 God and the Political Planet
• 7 Islam: Postman of Civilization
• 8 Recolonize Africa
• 9 Does Africa Matter?
• 10 Leaving History behind in Latin American
• 11 Torture Without Inflation
• 12 From Mosque to Multimedia: Hollywood, Islam and the Digital Age in Asia
• 13 China Can Say No to America
• 14 America Is No Longer Asia's Model
• Part II Defrosting the Older Order
• 15 What Did We End the Cold War For
• 16 The Great Criminal Revolution
• 17 Russia's Pink Clouds of Utopia
• 18 MTV and NATO Under Postcommunism
• 19 Victorious West, Humiliated Russia
• 20 (Very Recent) History Has Absolved Socialism
• 21 Why UN Peacekeeping Failed in Bosnia
• Part III Population, Migrants, and Megacities
• 22 Full House: The Shadow of Global Scarcity
• 23 Consumer Society is the Enemy
• 24 Overpopulation Tilts the Planer
• 25 Women as the Earths Last Hope
• 26 Poor Girls
• 27 Global Inequality: 358 Billionaires versus 2.3 Billion People
• 28 The Past is Too Small to Inhabit
• 29 Asia's Urban Century
• 30 Immigrants as Postmodern Prophets
• Part IV Globalization and Empires of the Mind
• 31 The Culture of Prosperity
• 32 Bypassing the State in Aisa
• 33 China's 600,000Avon Ladies
• 34 Planetized Entertainment
• 35 Resisting the Colonels of Disney
• 36 A Democratic Media Market
• 37 Singapore: Post-Liberal City of the Future
• Part V Terror, Democracy, and Peace after the Cold War
• 38 Old Fanaticism, Modern Weapons
• 39 Third Wave Terrorism rides the Tokyo Subway
• 40 Trading in the Apocalypse
• 41 Deng's Legacy: A China Consumed the Baos
• 42 Democracy is Asian As well
• 43 A Pluralist Path in the Arab World
• 44 Why Separate States
• Index

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Nathan Gardels is the editor of New Perspectives Quarterly , a journal published by Blackwell Publishers that covers world affairs. He is also editor of Global Viewpoint , a syndicated column distributed by the Los Angeles Times. His articles based on essays and conversations with world leaders appear regularly in major newspapers around the world. Gardels holds degress in Theory and Comparative Politics, Architecture and Urban Planning from the University of California at Los Angeles, where he now resides with his wife and two children.