Doha: Dead or Alive?

The Doha round has stalled for what seems like forever.  At this point, do you think it's dead or alive?

Read:

If Doha goes down, what goes with it?
by David Bosco for Foreign Policy

And let us know what you think.  We welcome hearing from you.

Posted by:  The Global Small Business Blog

Cross-Cultural Learning: Being Able to Shut Up and Listen

Side benefits of learning both a foreign language and a foreign culture.

Snippet:

How to learn about culture and language. When you live in a foreign culture, you learn how to learn. You learn what vocabulary is important, what language learning techniques work, how to make relationships, what skills are important, what details to pay attention to. These skills will carry over to other languages and other cultures in the future.

Read the entire piece here:  The Best Defense (be sure to read the wild comments)

Illustration credit here.

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More Globalization

I am not sure why the authors titled the feature in this fashion other than for purposes of provocativeness.  Globalization never went away.

The Return of Globalization
by Gary Hufbauer and Kati Suominen || Foreign Policy

Read it here.