The Magic of the Invisible Middle Finger
Under classic imperialism and colonialism, metropolitan countries owned their colonies. Under globalization, they rent them....
POLITICS
Gordon Fellman is a professor of sociology at Brandeis University and chair of the Peace, Conflict and Coexistence Studies Program. He is the author of Rambo and the Dalai Lama: The Compulsion to Win and Its Threat to Human Survival and the soon-to-be published The Coming End of War.