[Mitworld] New: Friedman on The World is Flat, Post Election Iraq

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MIT WORLD - Newsletter - volume 4 | number 27 | May 31, 2005
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THE WORLD IS FLAT

Friedman provides an overview of his new book The World is Flat,
discussing globalization down to the individual level. He provides
insight into outsourcing and "insourcing" and touches the globalization
of many industries, including retail, shipping, software development,
and the airlines. The talk links the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the
destruction of the World Trade Center as manifestations of the power of
two competing forms of imagination.

Speaker:
	Thomas L. Friedman
		Foreign Affairs Columnist,
		The New York Times

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CONSOLIDATING IRAQI DEMOCRACY: THE INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT

Feldman discusses the ongoing and seemingly endless insurgency in Iraq
and how the lack of security on all levels is threatening the hopes for
a democratic system to move forward. Makiya takes on the inherent flaws
in the pre-election process and post-election period.

Speakers:
	Noah Feldman
		Professor, New York University School of Law
	Kanan Makiya
		The Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern
		Studies, Brandeis University
		Founder, Iraq Memory Foundation

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IN THE PIPELINE:

Department of Urban Studies
	Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies Humphrey Evening
Lecture
	Series "Myths about America"

	Leo Marx
		Kenan Professor of American Cultural History Emeritus Program in
		Science, Technology, and Society, MIT

					"JAY GATSBY AND THE MYTH OF
					AMERICAN ORIGINS"

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