THE GLOBAL ME

    Why is Japan, a country that looked economically invincible a decade ago stagnating, while long-moribund Ireland booms? What qualities will insure the continued dominance in the new millennium of U.S. culture, society and business? In The Global Me, The Wall Street Journal's G. Pascal Zachary provides a provocative roadmap to the new civilization arising out of sweeping shifts in the world economy. He reveals—through vivid examples of individuals and institutions—that the key new determinants for economic, political and cultural success are, surprisingly, national diversity and a "mongrel" sense of self. Roaming the globe, Zachary shows how the rise of new forms of identity and migration are helping to determine exactly who will win and lose in the next century. Zachary's thesis isn't just about countries, but about individuals, too. In his tour of a new global civilization, we meet a fascinating gallery of characters who possess an intriguing mix of "roots" and "wings." Strong enough to know who they are, they are nevertheless ceaselessly becoming someone else—and in the process bestowing the gifts of creativity and social harmony on the cities and states that they call home. Social critics, pundits, politicians and economists will argue about The Global Me this season. Years from now they will realize the prescience of Zachary's original and compelling vision of a world where nations who embrace multiculturalism win big and those who do not are doomed to stagnation or worse.

作者简介：
G. Pascal Zachary is a senior writer at the Wall Street Journal, which he joined in 1989. His writings have appeared in other publications, including the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Mother Jones and Washington Quarterly. He is a contributing editor to the radical newsweekly In These Times, for whom he writes about political economy and jazz. He also writes a column on innovation for Technology Review. He is the author of two previous books: Showstopper, a 1994 account of the making of a software program at Microsoft, and Endless Frontier, a biographer of Vannevar Bush, organizer of the Manhattan Project. Zachary lives in London.

作者简介：
G. Pascal Zachary is a senior writer at the Wall Street Journal, which he joined in 1989. His writings have appeared in other publications, including the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Mother Jones and Washington Quarterly. He is a contributing editor to the radical newsweekly In These Times, for whom he writes about political economy and jazz. He also writes a column on innovation for Technology Review. He is the author of two previous books: Showstopper, a 1994 account of the making of a software program at Microsoft, and Endless Frontier, a biographer of Vannevar Bush, organizer of the Manhattan Project. Zachary lives in London.

INTRODUCTION The New Cosmopolitans
THE SINGER
CHAPTER 1 The Identity Toolbox
THE WRITER
CHAPTER 2 Roots and Wings
THE MANAGER
CHAPTER 3 Mongrelize or Die!
THE SEEKER
CHAPTER 4 The Hybridity Factor
THE HUSTLER
CHAPTER 5 Mongrel Nation
THE REBEL
CHAPTER 6 Diversity by Design
THE MAKER
CHAPTER 7 The Cosmopolitan Corporation
THE PREACHER
CHAPTER 8 Mongrel Leadership
THE IMITATOR
CHAPTER 9 The New Cosmopolitans and Their Critics
CONCLUSION A Mongrel World
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index