World Civ-Modern Global Dilemmas Archives - Daniel Aaron Lazar Fri, 12 Jun 2020 21:53:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The Global Slavery Index https://daniellazar.com/2013/10/27/the-global-slavery-index/ Sun, 27 Oct 2013 07:46:15 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4714 The Global Slavery Index provides a ranking of 162 countries, reflecting a combined measure of three factors: estimated prevalence of modern slavery by population, a measure of child marriage, and a measure of human trafficking in and out of a country. The measure is heavily weighted to reflect the first factor, prevalence. A number one … Continue reading The Global Slavery Index →

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]]> How much military is enough? https://daniellazar.com/2013/09/20/how-much-military-is-enough/ Fri, 20 Sep 2013 05:43:42 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4684 The U.S. once regarded a standing army as a form of tyranny. Now it spends more on defense than all other nations combined. Between 1998 and 2011, military spending doubled, reaching more than seven hundred billion dollars a year—more, in adjusted dollars, than at any time since the Allies were fighting the Axis. The decision … Continue reading How much military is enough? →

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]]> 21st Century Slavery https://daniellazar.com/2011/11/13/21st-century-slavery/ Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:47:29 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=2827 Today, 27 million men, women and children are held, sold and trafficked as slaves throughout the world. In Slavery: A 21st Century Evil, Rageh Omaar embarks on a worldwide journey to uncover the truth about the flourishing 21st century slave trade. Episode by episode, his investigation will expose the brutal reality of modern slavery and … Continue reading 21st Century Slavery →

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]]> Friend or Foe? A Special Report on China’s Place in the World https://daniellazar.com/2010/12/23/friend-or-foe-a-special-report-on-chinas-place-in-the-world/ https://daniellazar.com/2010/12/23/friend-or-foe-a-special-report-on-chinas-place-in-the-world/#comments Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:11:13 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=2323 four-part special report from the Economist, with a compelling conclusion

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]]> https://daniellazar.com/2010/12/23/friend-or-foe-a-special-report-on-chinas-place-in-the-world/feed/ 1 A Nation of Racist Dwarfs: Kim Jong-il's regime is even weirder and more despicable than you thought https://daniellazar.com/2010/02/13/a-nation-of-racist-dwarfs-kim-jong-ils-regime-is-even-weirder-and-more-despicable-than-you-thought/ Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:03:08 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=2011 Unlike previous racist dictatorships, the North Korean one has actually succeeded in producing a sort of new species. Starving and stunted dwarves, living in the dark, kept in perpetual ignorance and fear, brainwashed into the hatred of others, regimented and coerced and inculcated with a death cult: This horror show is in our future, and … Continue reading A Nation of Racist Dwarfs: Kim Jong-il's regime is even weirder and more despicable than you thought →

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]]> One World Under God? https://daniellazar.com/2010/01/01/one-world-under-god/ Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:59:14 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=1911 For all the advances and wonders of our global era, Christians, Jews, and Muslims seem ever more locked in mortal combat. But history suggests a happier outcome for the Peoples of the Book. As technological evolution has brought communities, nations, and faiths into closer contact, it is the prophets of tolerance and love that have … Continue reading One World Under God? →

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]]> The World is Bumpy: Deglobalization and its dangers https://daniellazar.com/2009/07/07/the-world-is-bumpy-deglobalization-and-its-dangers/ Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:07:05 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=1681 In the 1990s and early 2000s, nations around the world witnessed the sweep of globalization–the growing integration of economies, societies, and political systems–and the democratization of trade, migration, technology, and information. In many developing nations, governments threw their countries’ agriculture, resources, and services open to global competition and slashed subsidies for their domestic producers to … Continue reading The World is Bumpy: Deglobalization and its dangers →

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]]> Learning to Live With Radical Islam https://daniellazar.com/2009/03/30/learning-to-live-with-radical-islam/ Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:15:30 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=1595 The militants are bad people and this is bad news. But the more difficult question is, what should we-the outside world-do about it? That we are utterly opposed to such people, and their ideas and practices, is obvious. But how exactly should we oppose them? In Pakistan and Afghanistan, we have done so in large … Continue reading Learning to Live With Radical Islam →

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]]> A 'Postcard' View Of China's Global Prominence https://daniellazar.com/2009/01/18/a-postcard-view-of-chinas-global-prominence/ Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:25:09 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=1406 Journalist James Fallows explores China’s recent rise to power and what it means for the US in his new book of essays, Postcards Tomorrow Square. A National Correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, Fallows has been reporting on the economic and political transformation taking place in China since 2006. Listen to this interview with Fallows

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]]> Opposing Perspectives: The Impact of the Collapse of the USSR on the Global Balance of Power https://daniellazar.com/2008/06/29/opposing-perspectives-the-impact-of-the-collapse-of-the-ussr-on-the-global-balance-of-power/ Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:48:09 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/2008/06/29/opposing-perspectives-the-impact-of-the-collapse-of-the-ussr-on-the-global-balance-of-power/ The Breakup of the USSR Makes the US the Leader of the World (Elliot Abrams) The Breakup of the USSR Signals the End of US World Leadership (Zoltan Grossman) Write a 1-2 page, single-spaced position paper which adheres to the following: I. Short Intro with a Thesis (specific, complex and refutable) II.  Summarize the ideas … Continue reading Opposing Perspectives: The Impact of the Collapse of the USSR on the Global Balance of Power →

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