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Moving America from the Troubled Superpower to the Indispensable PartnerWhat a ride the world has been on over the last thirty years: the fall of the Berlin Wall, China's reemergence as a major power, the wishful creation of the BRICS, technological innovations, 9/11, conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, terrorism, the market crash of 2008, the Arab Spring, the Eurozone crisis, America's reemergence as an energy giant, and the rebirth of czarist Russia. The most important change, though - and the key to America's future - is globalization.Globalization has made America less independent. Our fate is now interconnected to other major industrial countries, yet our foreign policy has not adapted to this reality. In today's world, the term "ally" is becoming rapidly irrelevant.
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Edward Goldberg (edwardgoldberg.info ) is one of the leading experts on the interplay between global politics and global economics. Having spent his entire life moving between the worlds of academia, international trade and trade finance, he has a unique and realistic understanding of globalization and international-political economics. He is a Adjunct Professor at New York University's Center for Global Affairs specializing in international political economy and a scholarly practitioner at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY) .In his new book, Why Globalization Works for America: How Nationalst Trade Policies Are Destroying our Country, he write, "Globalization is here to stay and "all the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the Humpty Dumpty of yesterday's nonglobalized world back together again," The growing economic inequality in the United States often attributed to globalism is really a political failure, Goldberg goes on to say, it didn't have to be this way. When previous revolutionary business changes upended the American economy, government responded. The industrialization of the second half of the 1800s gave us robber barons and monopolies, which in turn triggered progressive reforms to ease gross inequality, such as the graduated income tax, direct election of Senators and the secret ballot. The misery created by the Great Depression led to another series of reforms, such as Social Security, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Security and Exchange Commission.This time, a polarized political system has failed to produce solutions, Goldberg writes. Indeed, the candidate who talked most about the growing political divide in 2016, Donald Trump, has done nothing to address the problem but has made matters worse by stoking the fears of the white working class and instituting new tariffs that complicate the global supply chain, which in turn, trigger escalating tariffs by other nations.His book, The Joint Ventured Nation: Why America Needs A New Foreign Policy, was published on October 18, 2016 by Skyhorse Publishing. The book argues ta specialist in international political economy at New York University and a scholarly practitioner at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY) .hat America's fate is now interconnected to the other major industrial countries while its foreign policy has not adapted to this reality. That essentially America is no longer the indispensible nation but now is the indispensible partner. The book is the antidote to the foreign policy of the Trump Administration.The reviews of The Joint Venture Nation have been exceptional with various scholars in the field praising it with the following comments:"Edward Goldberg gives us a cogent account of how we arrived in this new era when all the major nations, like it or not, are joint venture partners with one another. Cr
