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James Thomson, A House Divided (Arlington, VA, 2010), 17.
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“Competition and Cooperation Between China and the United States Are Intermingled,” Liaowang, February 7, 2010.
“China’s Expanding War Game,” Hindustan Times, August 25, 2010.
Secretary of State Clinton, Joint Press Conference in Tbilisi, July 6, 2010.
As proposed in this writer’s “A Plan for Europe,” Foreign Affairs, January 1995.
Mexican Immigrants: How Many Come? How Many Leave? Pew Hispanic Center Report, July 22, 2009.
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See a fuller explanation of this concept in this author’s 2004 book The Choice, 59 and 79.
Giovanni Arrighi, Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the 21st Century (London, 2007), 314–315.
“Over the Next 10 Years, Mass Incidents Will Be the Greatest Challenge to Governance,” Liaowang Dongfang Zhoukan, April 21, 2010.