ABSTRACT
Wrong, Mr. Kipling, but not en tirely so. We have learned that the utopian dream of a Global Village which flour ished in the late twen tieth cen tury, was a bridge too far, that ra cial, po litical, eco nomic, and historical differences wouldn’t end up in the blender and emerge uni - fied. Dis sent moved down like a wolf on the fold; in the twenty-first century, the global economy faltered and old-time na tionalism and regionalism roared back, along with some un expected prob lems: terrorism, po tential chaos, and warfare in the Mid dle East.
