{"id":2413,"date":"2002-05-01T20:47:19","date_gmt":"2002-05-02T01:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/?p=2413"},"modified":"2025-06-03T09:32:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T14:32:54","slug":"may-2002-the-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/2002\/05\/01\/may-2002-the-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2002 The Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Reminiscences 2024<\/p>\n

The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Global Business in Europe<\/p>\n

With the end of the Cold War (or so it seemed at the\"\"<\/a> time), the opportunity existed to put together a May Term trip for 2002 that spanned the European continent.\u00a0 This is what we promised:<\/p>\n

In his impressive book on the Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas Friedman contrasts the conditions surrounding the cold war with those of the current global age, both politically and economically.<\/p>\n

Students who select \u201cThe End of the Cold War and the Rise of Global Business in Europe\u201d will visit countries and companies to see the results of the globalization on both sides of what was once the Iron Curtain.\u00a0 The trip will take students to London and Paris (both of which conducted \u201cGlobal Business\u201d in their colonial empires), then to Berlin, which was literally at the center of the Cold War.\u00a0 Prague and Budapest, both centers of European culture that slipped behind the Iron Curtain for nearly half a century, will be visited.\u00a0 The tour will then go to two major cities in Russia\u2014Moscow and St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n

We will be visiting both American and foreign companies in these countries, as well as sampling their historical flavor, using the framework of Friedman\u2019s book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reminiscences 2024 The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Global Business in Europe With the end of the Cold War (or so it seemed at the time), the opportunity existed to put together a May Term trip for 2002 that spanned the European continent.\u00a0 This is what we promised: In his impressive … Continue reading “May 2002 The Promise”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-may-2002-end-of-the-cold-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2413"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9257,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions\/9257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}