Which Country Will Be the World Economic Leader in the Next Generation: The United States or China? And the North Korean Factor

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-73
Author(s):  
Suk Kim ◽  
Trevor Crick ◽  
Junhua Jia
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic

Chapter II. The World Economy

1974 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 23-37
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
The Other ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Economic Position

The world economic position and prospects have worsened further in the last three months. In the United States and Japan, in particular, recessionary conditions are proving to be more marked and more prolonged than we had expected, and it looks as though by the end of the year all the major industrial countries, with the possible exception of France, will have experienced at least one quarter in which output has fallen or at best shown no appreciable rise. The other developed countries have fared better, but we no longer expect there to be any growth of output in the OECD area either in the second half of the year or in the year as a whole. In 1975 the position should be rather better, at least by the second half. We expect OECD countries' aggregate GNP to grow by about 2 per cent year-on-year and nearly 3 per cent between the fourth quarters of 1974 and 1975.

THE APPEARANCE OF AMERICAN GIRLS, AS VIEWED BY MOREAU DE SAINT-MÉRY ABOUT 1795

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-167
Author(s):  
T. E. C.
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Young Girls ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
The World ◽  
The French Revolution

The French jurist, Méderic Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry (1750-1819), was driven into exile during the French Revolution by Robespierre's accession to power. From 1794 to 1798 Moreau lived in the United States. In the journal he kept during these years, he described American young girls as follows: American girls are pretty, and their eyes are alive with expression; but their complexions are wan, bad teeth spoil the appearance of their mouths, and there is also something disagreeable about the length of their legs. In general, however, they are of good height, are graceful, and, in enumerating their charms, one must not forget the shapeliness of their breasts. Philadelphia has thousands of beauties between fourteen and eighteen. To offer but a single proof: on the north side of Market Street, between Third and Fifth Street, on a single winter's day I saw four hundred young maidens promenading, each one of whom would surely have been followed in Paris, a seductive tribute that could be offered by perhaps no other city in the world. But these girls soon became pale, and an indisposition which is reckoned among the most unfavorable for the maintenance of the freshness of youth is very common among them. They have thin hair and bad teeth, and are given to nervous illnesses. The elements which embellish beauty, or rather which compose and order it, are not often bestowed by the graces. Finally, they are charming, adorable at fifteen, dried up at twenty-three, old at thirty-five, decrepit at forty or fifty.

The continuing threat of nuclear war

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Cirincione
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nuclear War ◽  
The North ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The World ◽  
Nuclear Winter

The American poet Robert Frost famously mused on whether the world will end in fire or in ice. Nuclear weapons can deliver both. The fire is obvious: modern hydrogen bombs duplicate on the surface of the earth the enormous thermonuclear energies of the Sun, with catastrophic consequences. But it might be a nuclear cold that kills the planet. A nuclear war with as few as 100 hundred weapons exploded in urban cores could blanket the Earth in smoke, ushering in a years-long nuclear winter, with global droughts and massive crop failures. The nuclear age is now entering its seventh decade. For most of these years, citizens and officials lived with the constant fear that long-range bombers and ballistic missiles would bring instant, total destruction to the United States, the Soviet Union, many other nations, and, perhaps, the entire planet. Fifty years ago, Nevil Shute’s best-selling novel, On the Beach, portrayed the terror of survivors as they awaited the radioactive clouds drifting to Australia from a northern hemisphere nuclear war. There were then some 7000 nuclear weapons in the world, with the United States outnumbering the Soviet Union 10 to 1. By the 1980s, the nuclear danger had grown to grotesque proportions. When Jonathan Schell’s chilling book, The Fate of the Earth, was published in 1982, there were then almost 60,000 nuclear weapons stockpiled with a destructive force equal to roughly 20,000 megatons (20 billion tons) of TNT, or over 1 million times the power of the Hiroshima bomb. President Ronald Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ anti-missile system was supposed to defeat a first-wave attack of some 5000 Soviet SS-18 and SS-19 missile warheads streaking over the North Pole. ‘These bombs’, Schell wrote, ‘were built as “weapons” for “war”, but their significance greatly transcends war and all its causes and outcomes. They grew out of history, yet they threaten to end history. They were made by men, yet they threaten to annihilate man’.

Speed Metal, Slow Tropics, Cold War

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mimi Sheller
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Air Power ◽  
Bauxite Mining ◽  
The North ◽  
The World

This chapter examines the production and marketing of aluminum as a carrier of uneven global modernities, thus highlighting the ways in which mobility and immobilization were simultaneously created in the world of traveling commodities, transport systems, and tourism. More specifically, it considers the role of aluminum, the “speed metal,” in modernization by linking the North American world of mobility, speed, and flight to the heavier, slower Caribbean world of bauxite mining, racialized labor relations, and resource extraction. The chapter first looks at the emergence of U.S. air power in the early twentieth century before discussing the cultural motions of Caribbean modernity and the complex constellations of mobility and immobility that structure transnational American relations. It also discusses the role played by companies like Alcoa in promoting innovation in the United States in the use of aluminum and imagining the light modernity of the future.

СИЛЬНЫЙ ЧЕЛОВЕК И СИЛЬНЫЙ ПРЕЗИДЕНТ// Humanitarian and Socio-Economic Sciences Journal 4(15), 2019/ OEAPS Inc.(Open European Academy of Public Sciences); Chief Editor Flora Bertrand - Oxford, UK. 14.05.2019: OEAPS Inc., 2019. - PP. 9-17.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Константин Георгиевич Деменин
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Chief Editor ◽  
World War ◽  
European Academy ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
World Economic Crisis

В статье рассматривается социально-политический портрет Ф. Рузвельта, который, несмотря на тяжёлую болезнь, в первой половине XX века не только стал 32 президентом США, но и умело управлял страной в период во время мирового экономического кризиса и Второй мировой войны. Статья особенно актуально сегодня, в век толерантности, инклюзии и высоких технологических возможностей.In article F.Roosevelt's sociopolitical portrait which, despite of heavy illness, in first half XX centuries not only became 32 president of the United States is considered, but also skilfully operated the country during during a world economic crisis and the World War II. Article especially actually today, in a century of tolerance, инклюзии and high technological possibilities.

Chapter II. The World Economy

1969 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 18-32
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
The Government

The world economic scene has changed little since May. Devaluation of the franc, which had seemed likely for more than a year, is now an accomplished fact. Otherwise the scene remains dominated, as it has been throughout 1969, by the widespread expectation of an upward revaluation of the deutschemark after next month's elections in West Germany and by the struggle in the United States to control inflation by monetary means. A forecast of the immediate future of the deutschemark now calls, however, for political rather than economic judgement. Similarly in France much will depend upon the rigour of deflationary measures to be introduced by the government and upon the reactions which they may evoke from the trades unions and their members. In this issue, therefore, we direct our main attention to prospects in the United States, where it is at least reasonably clear what aims the authorities will be pursuing in coming months.

Epilogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 285-302
Author(s):  
James P. Byrd
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil War ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
Religious War

This epilogue examines the central themes of the Bible in the Civil War, including confidence in clear analogies between biblical texts and the war; faith in the war’s redemptive outcome, which, for many in the North, charged the United States with a divine mission in the world; and above all, reverence for the sacred sacrifice of the dead, whose blood had “consecrated” the nation. Through all the death and injury, endless debates over slavery, defenses of secession, and patriotism, the Bible was a constant reference. The American Civil War may not have been “a war of religion,” James McPherson wrote, but we should not forget “the degree to which it was a religious war.” In a similar way, the American Civil War was not primarily a war over the Bible, but it was a biblical war for many Americans.

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