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Introduction: The 1990s: Projections for the Coming Decade
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SPECIAL SECTION
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1 / 1990 |
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The 1990s signify more than the passing of another decade. They mark the end not just of the turbulent twentieth century but of a millennium, in the latter part of which a truly global society has emerged. The almost daily changes--unimaginable a few short years ago--occurring in the communist bloc guarantee that the 1990s will be different from the 1980s. Marxist ideology has proven itself a dinosaur ill-adapted to an emerging world of high technology and rapid global interaction.
The challenge is not just to the communist world, however. The pace of technological development and the growth of economic interdependence are pressing toward a physically integrated world that is transcending the boundaries of nation-states, ideological blocs, and their associated institutions. As the old Cold War certainties are thrown into question, new dangers emerge; the challenge before us is to find the principles that can guide us toward a cooperative global society and generate forms and institutions appropriate to it.
THE WORLD & I has invited scholars and experts from eight different fields to consider what changes the 1990s may bring and the challenges to be faced in dealing with them.
Carl F.H. Henry, a noted Protestant theologian, sees the twentieth century moving to its close amid philosophical confusion over the nature of man and the values that should guide human society. He considers that in the twenty-first century, religion is likely to "bid again for centrality."
Norman A. Bailey, senior director of international economic affairs in the Reagan
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