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A Conversation with James Fallows
No full textGary Eichten, Minnesota Public Radio news editor-at-large and retired host, leads a conversation with James Fallows, author, national correspondent for The Atlantic and commentator for National Public Radio, at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, in Pellegrene Auditorium, Saint John\u27s University.
The conversation is co-sponsored at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John\u27s University by the University Chair in Critical Thinking, the Center for Global Education and the Asian Studies Program.
Fallows is based in Washington as a national correspondent for The Atlantic. He has worked for the magazine for nearly 30 years and in that time has lived in Seattle; Berkeley, Calif.; Austin, Texas; Tokyo; Kuala Lumpur; Shanghai and Beijing. He was raised in Redlands, Calif., received his undergraduate degree in American history and literature from Harvard, and received a graduate degree in economics from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.
In addition to working for The Atlantic, he spent two years as chief White House speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, two years as the editor of U.S. News & World Report and six months as a program designer at Microsoft. He is an instrument-rated private pilot. He also holds the chair in U.S. media at the U.S. Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, in Australia.
Fallows has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award five times and has won once. He has also won the American Book Award for nonfiction and a New York Emmy award for the documentary series Doing Business in China. He was the founding chairman of the New America Foundation. His two most recent books, Blind Into Baghdad (2006) and Postcards From Tomorrow Square (2009), are based on his writings for The Atlantic. His latest book, China Airborne, was published in 2012
James Fallows interview for the China Boom Project
No full textJames Fallows, National Correspondent of The Atlantic, was interviewed by the Asia Society staff in Tianjin, China on May 30, 2008.Transcript and interviewee's bio are available.Original video interviews are available at the Asia Society.The China Boom Project classified this interviewee’s field as Media
James Fallows. Looking at the Sun
No full textServoise René. James Fallows. Looking at the Sun. In: Politique étrangère, n°3 - 1994 - 59ᵉannée. pp. 889-890
James Fallows. Looking at the Sun
No full textServoise René. James Fallows. Looking at the Sun. In: Politique étrangère, n°3 - 1994 - 59ᵉannée. pp. 889-890
The 2012 elections: has America finally gone mad?
No full textJames Fallows shares his insights to the 2012 US election, the candidates, the issues, the campaign – and the consequences for the country.
James Fallows has been writing politics, global and national, for the Atlantic (where he is national correspondent) for over 30 years. Just prior to the presidential debate series, he attended the Wheeler Centre to share his considerable insights into the candidates, the issues, the campaign – and the consequences for his country, depending on who is elected to lead it.
Fallows is uniquely placed to understand the inner workings of the political machine and interpret its carefully spun surfaces – he once worked in the White House’s inner sanctum, as chief speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter.
 
How the media undermined democracy
No full textItem consists of a digitized copy of a video recording of a Vancouver Institute lecture given by James Fallows on April 10, 1999. Original video recording available in the University Archives (UBC VT 2093).Non UBCUnreviewedOthe
James Fallows - National orrespondent for The Atlantic and Award Winning Writer
No full textPostcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China
A national correspondent for The Atlantic, James Fallows is one of America’s most respected journalists. Whether writing about politics, national security, the economy, or foreign policy, Fallows strives to do one thing: “Make the important interesting.” For his always-perceptive, sometimes-prescient writing, he has won the National Book Award, the American Book Award, and been a finalist for the National Magazine Award five times, winning once. Writing from China since 2006, he is now chronicling that country’s explosive growth and its staggering ramifications for America and the world.
Fallows has covered the major foreign policy stories of our time—from Iraq to North Korea to Iran to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and beyond. In his lectures, he delivers an unsparing look at the challenges to American foreign policy posed by our actions in various regions, how other countries perceive us, and how upheavals overseas will impact us.
In his more than 25 years working for The Atlantic, Fallows has been based in Washington, DC, Seattle, Berkeley, Austin, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, and now Beijing. In addition to working for The Atlantic, he has spent two years as chief White House speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, two years as the editor of US News & World Report, and as a program designer at Microsoft. He received his undergraduate degree in American history and literature from Harvard, and received a graduate degree in economics from Oxford.
In addition to his latest book, Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China, Fallows is also the author of Breaking the News, about the crisis facing contemporary news media, and Blind into Baghdad, about the lead-up to the War in Iraq (now required reading in many military programs).
Please also join us on Wednesday, February 17, for the Wright State University Honors Institute Symposium on Connecting with China.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/archives_presidential_lecture_series/1036/thumbnail.jp
Trade with the Pacific Rim
No full textDuring the 1990s the economies of East Asia were among the fastest growing in the world, and appeared poised for further expansion. Yet as American trade with these economies grew, so too did the U.S. trade deficit with the region. International trade and open markets are critical to the wellbeing of the U.S. economy, but the ballooning trade deficit caused widespread concern among American policymakers, including President Clinton, who placed renewed emphasis on increasing American competitiveness and bolstering exports. The United States' role in the 1993 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference emphasized the importance of balancing American trade with the Pacific Rim countries, whose imports, although sizable, continued to fall short of exports to the U.S. What is causing the growing imbalance of trade with the East-Asian economies, and how can the U.S. ensure that the benefits of trade go both ways? Hosted by Peter Krogh, and featuring James Fallows, Washington Editor of the Atlantic Monthly, and Ambassador Richard Solomon, former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs.Discusses the growing U.S. trade deficit with the countries of the Pacific Rim and examines potential responses
Looking at the sun the rise of the new East Asian economic and political system
No full text"The Western world believes that capitalism has won, that our model of individual enterprise and rights has triumphed. But in East Asia a new system has emerged that challenges the economic principles the West extols. In fact, as James Fallows vividly demonstrates, the theories we embrace to explain how nations rise and fall have prevented us from seeing the true nature of this new system and its enormous impact on us." "Skillfully blending history with on-the-ground reportage and astute analysis, Fallows reveals how political goals and historical experience have shaped Japan's economic rise and placed it at the heart of the Asian system. He shows how the explosive growth of Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore has been fueled by Japanese investment; why Burma, the Philippines, and Vietnam have been largely isolated from the region's progress; and why Korea, Taiwan, and "Greater China" are the strongest contenders for future economic dominance." "Extraordinary in depth and scope, Looking At the Sun provides the first clear picture of the Asian rise and the magnitude of its challenge to the Western world."--BOOK JACKET
Do mixed-species legume fallows provide long-term maize yield benefit compared with monoculture legume fallows?
No full textThe deliberate planting of fast-growing N2-fixing legume monoculture species in rotation with cereal crops can be an important source of N for soil fertility replenishment. We hypothesized that mixed-species fallows have a higher potential of giving long-term residual benefits in terms of biomass, nutrients, and quality of residuals leading to long-term nutrient supply to postfallow maize (Zea mays L.) crops. To test these hypotheses, two experiments were established in farmers' fields on very fine Kandiudalfic Eutrudox soils with monoculture and mixed-species fallows. Treatments included: sesbania [Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr.], crotalaria (Crotalaria grahamiana Wight and Arn.), pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.], siratro [Macroptilium atropurpureum (DC.) Urb.], and calliandra (Calliandra calothyrsus Meissn.) as monoculture-species fallow and mixture fallows of sesbania + crotalaria, sesbania + pigeonpea, sesbania + siratro, or sesbania + calliandra compared with continuous maize cropping with or without N fertilizer, and natural weed fallow. Total aboveground biomass ranged from 4.1 to 20.5 Mg ha-1 for monoculture and 7.8 to 23.3 Mg ha-1 for mixed-species fallows. Recyclable fallow biomass N ranged from 70 to 313 kg ha-1 and there was a positive interaction in some mixtures leading to increased N accumulation. Postfallow maize yields for fallows over five cropping seasons were 161-272% or 61-103% higher when compared with continuous maize without or with N fertilizer, respectively. Long-term postfallow effects on maize yield were linearly related to the amount of recycled fallow N yield. Thus, choice of fallow species to mix should be primarily driven by a better risk management strategy and an increased basket of multiple products and service
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