The Art of Human

feature of international relations today. And therefore being a globalist is the only way to systematically connect the dots, see the system of globalization and thereby order the chaos.

If I am wrong about this world, that will be apparent soon enough. But if I am not wrong, there are a lotof people who are going to have to go back to school. I believe it is particularly important for both journalists, who are charged with explaining the world, and strategists, who are responsible for shaping it, to think like globalists. There is increasingly a seamless web between all of these different worlds and institutions, and reporters and strategists need to be as seamless as that web. Unfortunately, in bothjoumalism and academe, there is a deeply ingrained tendency to think in terms of highly segmented, narrow areas of expertise, which ignores the fact that the real world is not divided up into such neat little beats and that the boundaries between domestic, international,

~ political and technological affairs are all collapsing.

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Let me offer just one example. For years, the Clinton Administration kept threatening to impose trade sanctions on Japan unless it eliminated certain official and hidden tariffs on a variety of goods. But every time the savvy U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor would seem to have won the argument inside the Administration for taking action, and the President was about to lower the boom on Japan, at the last minute Clinton would back off. Here is what I imagine was going on inside the Oval Office at the time:

Kantor would walk into the Oval Office, pull up a chair next to the President and say, "Mr. President, those damn Japanese are stonewalling, they are sticking it to us again. They are not allowing our exports in. It's time we really lowered the boom. Sanctions, Mr. President. Big-time sanctions. This is the time for them. This is the place for them, and, by the way, Mr. President, the unions will love'us for it."

"Mickey, you are dead right," the President would say. "Go for it." But just as Kantor was about to leave to lower the boom on Tokyo, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin would come in the side door of the Oval Office.

"Ah, Mr. President," Rubin