Heading home -- Irish uprising -- Iceland : miracle on ice -- India rising -- Singapore : home to the world -- The China syndrome -- Taiwan : cross-strait competition -- Israel : mideast miracle -- Mexico : bienvenidos, amigos -- Confronting the future

Thanks to space age technology, borderless companies are spawning a borderless economy. In the process, the global cybermarket is becoming, well, a virtual reality. Yes, global telemarketing itself is booming, but it's quickly being supplemented by TV and Internet shopping services.

The next global battle will be fought over jobs. The planet's population today is just below 6 billion—moving to 8 billion by early in the next century. If each year we add another 95 million people to the earth's total, then each year we need to create an additional 40 million jobs globally....

New age technology is obliterating geography. By redistributing economic power around the world, it is creating a footloose economy that permits firms to locate in a variety of nontraditional venues.

America's strategists are at sixes and sevens. At issue: how to chart the United States' moral compass. Repeatedly, we intervene in a host of nations—Bosnia, Rwanda, Somalia, Haiti—to redress grave human suffering. To date, our responses have been uneven, without any clear‐cut guidelines...