We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.

We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.

Our interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark result is that the world's poor live, and especially die, with the awareness that the United States is doing little to mobilise the weapons of mass salvation that could offer them survival, dignity and eventually the escape from poverty.

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.