This collection of twenty-five essays written over the past five years by international economic policy expert Charles Wolf Jr. covers a range of worldwide economic, political, security, and diplomatic issues. Wolf looks at the challenges facing the United States at home and around the globe including critical issues regarding China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Iraq, and other key locales. These essays—many of which originally appeared in such respected publications as the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the International Herald Tribune, among others—reflect the pattern of policy issues to expect in the twenty-first century: a variety and complexity of themes that spill over the standard boundaries of political, economic, and military affairs.

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• Foreward by Newton N. Minow (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_vii.pdf ~29 KB)
• Preface (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_xi.pdf ~33 KB)
• Capitalism, Chinese Style (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_3.pdf ~41 KB)
• Foreign Investment Leverages China's Growth (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_9.pdf ~39 KB)
• Fault Lines in China's Economic Terrain (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_13.pdf ~44 KB)
• China's Currency Dilemma and How to Resolve It (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_19.pdf ~40 KB)
• More about the Chinese Currency (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_23.pdf ~38 KB)
• Two Major Problems Confronting China: One Hard, the Other Harder (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_27.pdf ~39 KB)
• U.S.-China Relations: Mostly Partners, Sometimes Rivals (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_31.pdf ~39 KB)
• Japan's Comfortable Stagnation (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_37.pdf ~45 KB)
• Dealing with North Korea: Unilateralism, Bilateralism, or Multilateralism? (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_43.pdf ~39 KB)
• Kim Jong-Il's Financial Bind (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_47.pdf ~41 KB)
• Europe's Unilateralism May Have a Brighter Side (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_55.pdf ~39 KB)
• Absent Weapons Don't Imply Faulty Intelligence (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_59.pdf ~39 KB)
• Resolving the UN Dilemma (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_63.pdf ~39 KB)
• What if Iraq Had Not Been Invaded (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_67.pdf ~38 KB)
• How Sunni Capitalism Can Trump Sunni Insurgency (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_71.pdf ~39 KB)
• Signs of Regress and Progress in Russia's Economy (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_75.pdf ~46 KB)
• The Case for Selective Unilateralism (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_83.pdf ~42 KB)
• Whether Multilateralism Is Better or Worse than Unilateralism Is, Well, Situation-Dependent (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_89.pdf ~51 KB)
• Traditional Allies Are Not Permanent Allies (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_95.pdf ~40 KB)
• The Principal Global Imbalance Lies Elsewhere (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_99.pdf ~31 KB)
• Doomsday for the Doomsayers? (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_105.pdf ~41 KB)
• The Mythology Surrounding Energy Security (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_109.pdf ~42 KB)
• Efficient Equity Markets Require Smarter Investors (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_115.pdf ~42 KB)
• Public Diplomacy: How to Think about and Improve It (coauthored with Brian Rosen) (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_121.pdf ~104 KB)
• Liberals and Conservatives: Who's What and Where? (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_149.pdf ~45 KB)
• About the Author (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_155.pdf ~31 KB)
• Index (Looking_ Backward_and_Forward_Charles_Wolf_157.pdf ~56 KB)