Indebted America Risks an Age of Austerity
Roger Altman and Richard N. Haass argue that a debt crisis in the United States will shrink America's global role and result in a less safe...
Authors: Richard Katz
Robert D. Kaplan
Ronald Inglehart
Christian Welzel
Prepared by: Brian Morris
March/April 2009
This audio includes readings from the March/April 2009 issue of Foreign Affairs including "The Japan Fallacy" by Richard Katz, "Center Stage for the Twenty-first Century" by Robert D. Kaplan, and "How Development Leads to Democracy" by Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel.
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