The use of force among advanced industrial democracies is virtually unthinkable.

The US and other advanced industrial countries pushed globalization.

It was soon grew to a G 7 of advanced industrial economies.

WASHINGTON In most advanced democracies, a large center right party competes with a large center left party.

The second danger springs from high asset values within the advanced industrial core.

It is also true for advanced democracies since good government is a key factor in strengthening democratic governance.

BERKELEY It is fitting that the upcoming G 20 summit is being held in Pittsburg, an old industrial center of an advanced industrial country, for the advanced countries have been allowed to set the agenda for strengthening financial systems.

More than two million people in the advanced industrial nations today find work in renewable energy.

Rudd s stimulus worked Australia had the shortest and shallowest of recessions of the advanced industrial countries.

Growing inequality in the advanced industrial countries was a long predicted but seldom advertised consequence of globalization.

Russian industrial exports primarily consist of armaments, with advanced aircraft accounting for more than half of sales.

Indeed, even firms in advanced industrial countries that have not received a subsidy are at an unfair advantage.

One reason is that they continue to be dependent, directly or indirectly, on exports to advanced industrial countries.

Moreover, interest rates in the world's peripheral, developing economies rose far more than rates in the advanced industrial core.

The problem plaguing many advanced democracies, in Europe and elsewhere, is rising government spending, taxes, and public debt, all of which gravely threaten economic growth.

(With Australia s new government now having signed the Protocol, America is now the sole holdout among the advanced industrial countries.)

The moment of enlightenment came only when those policies also began inflicting costs on the US and other advanced industrial countries.

BERKELEY It is fitting that the upcoming G 20 summit is being held in Pittsburg, an old industrial center of an advanced industrial country, for the advanced countries have been allowed to set the agenda for strengthening financial systems. Other than schadenfreude , emerging markets have brought little to the table.

The economics is clear the world needs all the advanced industrial countries to commit to another big round of real stimulus spending.

The economics is clear the world needs all the advanced industrial countries to commit to another big round of real stimulus spending.

Today, by contrast, such debates are too often centered at the IMF, where the financial interests of the advanced industrial countries predominate.

In this sense, the Taksim sit in resembles protests elsewhere, particularly in the advanced democracies, from the Occupy Wall Street movement to the protests in Spain and Italy.

Intellectual property is important, but the appropriate intellectual property regime for a developing country is different from that for an advanced industrial country.

That orthodoxy often went hand in hand with the national, corporate, and financial interests of the advanced industrial countries, or so it was perceived.

Disgruntled Democracies

CAMBRIDGE In the early days of the global financial crisis, there was some optimism that developing countries would avoid the downturn that advanced industrial countries experienced.

We encouraged research based policies, even when that research was critical of policies being pushed by certain advanced industrial countries and by some in the Bank.

But if the advanced industrial countries that control the Bank refuse to stand by their principles, at least they should give a nod to greater transparency.

Over the longer term, most economists agree that governments, especially in advanced industrial countries with aging populations, should be concerned about the sustainability of their policies.

About half of today s UN members are democracies, the other half non democracies.

In the US (and some other advanced industrial countries), any deficit reduction agenda has to be set in the context of what happened over the last decade

Too often, UN peacekeeping missions require passing the hat among the advanced industrial countries, giving them virtual veto power over when, where, and how the UN acts.

Asia s Dysfunctional Democracies

When Democracies Collide

An independent judiciary, financial disclosure by government officials, and other independent institutions have been essential to limiting and forestalling though not fully eliminating corruption in the United States and most other advanced capitalist democracies.

There is less equality of opportunity in the United States today than there is in Europe or, indeed, in any advanced industrial country for which there are data.

A League of Democracies?

Asia u0027s Dysfunctional Democracies.

Democracies require real debate.

It suffers from less inequality than many advanced industrial countries (though more than Canada and the northern European countries), and it has had a longer standing commitment to environment preservation.

The Great Democracies New Harmony

Three Paths for Indebted Democracies

CAMBRIDGE Will military power become less important in the coming decades? It is true that the number of large scale inter state wars continues to decline, and fighting is unlikely among advanced democracies and on many issues.

Mature democracies do tend to act more responsibly, but immature democracies can easily succumb to populism and nationalism.

Regrettably, unless the United States and other advanced industrial countries make much greater progress on financial sector reforms in 2010, we may find ourselves faced with another opportunity to learn them.