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1. The anti-globalization movement has brought an inconvenient truth to our attention. We never really asked ourselves if the benefits of a globalized economy were worth the costs, which include a widening gap between rich and poor; the loss of good jobs in America; economic instability in developing countries; and potent jolts to national pride. Globalization is not natural or inevitable for nations or for the world. It is something we have built over the past four decades by choice. It can be modified by choice, as well.

2. The chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland said this week that Alan Turing might never have lived up to his potential had he been born in India. A columnist for The Telegraph writes that this "mere bankster" should be denounced and fined, because he did not understand how Mr. Turing's genius would have flourished in today's global economy. A writer for The Guardian claims that Peter Sutherland is wrong, but has a point: Brain drain gives outsiders too much power over nations to whose development they contributed, and it takes away the chance to learn from them as they age.

3. Countries around the world have adopted different strategies for managing their international affairs. In some countries, a single department coordinates policy and acts as the main authority on all things foreign; in others it is shared among several ministries, with no global foreign ministry at all. Some states are members of international organizations such as the United Nations or the World Trade Organization; others are not; some seek to join but only get involved on a case-by-case basis.