Global Trends and Forecasting

Globalization and the American Worker is a path-breaking work on economic policy in a global age. It debunks the myths that clutter the political debate over globalization, focusing instead on the hard challenges the United States faces in building a stronger economic future.

In this issue:

Latin America’s Aging Challenge: Demographics and Retirement Policy in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico examines the economic, social, and geopolitical implications of the dramatic demographic transformation that is about to overtake the region.

The United States now has the opportunity to take a global leadership position on a critical resource—water—that will become even more critical in the future. The world over, water is intricately linked to the stability and security of communities and nations, human health, education, economic prosperity, humanitarian relief, and stewardship of the physical environment.

China has been pursuing its national interests recently through the exercise of “soft power,” as it projects a nonconfrontational face to the developing world.

Will Asia’s future see increasing economic interdependence and cooperation or growing power rivalry and confrontation?

U.S. policies on the range of pressing international water-related issues—humanitarian relief, human health, economic development, environmental stewardship, and stability and security—are fragmented, underresourced, and insufficiently coordinated. In particular, both the U.S.