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Stephen Hill Linkography: Survival

Greece: Epicenter of the Debt Earthquake?
Posted: 27 November 2010 - La Progressive. Also posted at: How's Europe Doing - The Washington Monthly, 25 November 2010. Unlike the other countries I have visited where “the fear of the crisis has turned out to be worse than the crisis itself” (as one commentator told me), in Greece the impact of the economic crisis has hit like a small tsunami. My colleagues in Athens talk about declines in service, in the quality of health care and other dents in the Greek system that they are experiencing.

Despite the Crisis, Europe Is the Model for the World

Interview in Czech: 23 February 2011 - Lidove Noviny. Czech title : Evropa je i přes krizi pro svět vzorem – 23 února 2011, Lidove Noviny. (Use Google translator). In this exclusive Q&A interview with the prominent Czech newspaper Lidove Noviny, Hill is questioned primarily about his book, the economic policies of the EU, the Euro crisis, prospects for the future of an integrated Europe and more. See also>>

The Greek aftershock - Will it make or break Europe?
Article: February 19, 2010 – Social Europe Journal. After the earthquake come the aftershocks. That is a law of geophysics, and now apparently of economics. Well over a year ago, the world economy suffered a massive economic quake of 8.0 on the Richter scale. Since then different countries have been experiencing a number of aftershocks.

Steven Hill re Europe’s Promise: Q&A
Interview aired (audio): 30 May 2010 - A Terrence McNally Podcast.

The European Union, 27 member nations with a half billion people, has become the largest, wealthiest trading bloc in the world. Americans are hearing a lot about the trouble Europe is in. The debt crisis in Greece, and perhaps Spain, Portugal, and Italy, is threatening the Euro and the European Union. What's really going on? How did it happen? How bad is it? How will they deal with it? And what does it mean for the rest of the world and for the US in particular? These are the questions Hill takes on during this lengthy Q&A interview.

Europe and its Revolution - Part 1
Posted in Italian: 30 November 2010 - Europe and its revolution By Francesca Cannino. (Italian original: L’Europa e la sua rivoluzione 1/2, 30 Novembre 2010 – Gli Euros, Par Francesca Cannino (traduttrice) .
Europe and its Revolution - Part 2
Posted in Italian: 13 December 2010 - Europe and its revolution By Francesca Cannino. (Italian original: L’Europa e la sua rivoluzione 2/2, 30 Novembre 2010 – Gli Euros, Par Francesca Cannino (traduttrice) Use Google translator). There is no doubt that Europe can sometimes appear in disarray reeling from one apparent crisis to another. It is facing challenges that seem impossible… Yet in the end, it always gets the job done as is characteristic in a united Europe for the last 60 years.

The Silver Lining of the Greek Debt Crisis
Posted April 7, 2010 - Huffington Post. Greece's debt situation has pundits taking out their crystal balls trying to divine the future not only of Greece, but also the euro and Europe. Every news outlet from the New York Times to National Public Radio has joined the chorus of gloom and doom.

Author Steven Hill on Greece’s debt and the euro
Panel discussion (audio): 15 February 2010 on the BBC World Newshour. Presenter James Menendez discusses Greece’s debt crisis with a panel that includes Steven Hill and Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, the Italian politician who died a few months after this interview. He was one of the architects of the single European currency.

Steven Hill and Europe's Promise: AICGS Podcasts

Podcast interview (audio): 27 May 2010 - Dr. Jackson Janes, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies. Steven Hill and Dr. Janes discuss Hill's book and examine the question: Is Europe too big to fail? They also discuss Europe's ability to weather the Greek crisis, and whether or not Europe has the necessary leaders at the national and European levels to push it into the future.

Dave Ross Show interview with Steven Hill
Talk radio interview (audio): 15 March 2010 - KIRO-AM 710 in Seattle with host Dave Ross. While the effects of the global financial crisis continue to be felt worldwide Hill discusses how Europe has managed to weather the storm better than the US.

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Stephen Hill Linkography: Worldview - China

China’s Political Development at a Crossroad.
Article: 25 May 2012 - China-US Focus. This past year has been the worst of times and the best of times for China’s political development. Less than a year before China’s decennial transfer of power among its top leadership, that elite world was rattled by a disturbing episode of scandal, corruption and political murder in one of China’s largest cities.

My Lunch at the European Commission: ‘Why is Europe Losing the Public Relations Battle to China?'
Article: 22 December 2010 – Social Europe. Hill explains that the media fall back on lazy journalism and inadequate research methodologies casting America as the existing superpower and China as the up-and-coming superpower even though Europe is vastly superior in just about every way we count these things when compared to China. He points out that Europe is losing the public relations battle to China because the EU hasn’t created its own public relations apparatus to help explain the importance of Europe to the world.

The China Superpower Hoax
Article: 23 September 2010 published on Truthdig AlterNet. China must have the best public relations maestros in the world. How else would a country with a lower per capita income than Iran, Mexico and Kazakhstan, one of the worst environmental records of any major nation, endemic corruption, jails stuffed with dissenters, and a dictatorship, besides, be hailed by so many as the next global superpower?

China's Robber-Baron Ways
Article: 23 September 2008 - New York Times. In its march to modernity, Beijing's ruling Communist Party took off the economic shackles of the Mao years and relaunched the country as a capitalist-communist state - a real oddball coupling, if ever there was one. Part of this process involved the radical devolution of economic power to over 30 provinces, fostering a kind of anarchic federalism.

China and the Long Road Ahead
Posted: 6 September 2008 - World Policy Blog. During the Olympics, China showed the world that it can throw a heck of a coming out party. But traveling here afterward, one sees the many complexities and challenges facing this vast and ancient land.

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Stephen Hill Linkography: World Output

ICANN: the Secret Government of the Internet?
Article: April, 2001 - Labornet viewpoints: Global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement. Also posted at: In These Times, 15 May 2000. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a little-known international body that oversees crucial Internet functions. Depending on whose description you read, it is either an innocuous non-profit with a narrow technical mandate, or the first step in corralling the Internet for commercial and other purposes. Despite the centrality of it's role in the online world, there has been almost no media coverage of ICANN. The question of who should control this new form of global communication requires an answer.

WTO Dissent In the Streets, Instead Of In the Legislature?
Article: 26 April 2000 - Labornet viewpoints: Global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement. As the clouds of tear gas dispersed over the streets of Seattle, one couldn't help but wonder where all this dissent over the World Trade Organization came from. Certainly in booming economic times we have not heard much vocal opposition in our state and federal legislatures.

WTO Problems Underscores Need
for U.S. Labor Party

Article: 12 December 1999 - Albion Monitor. No matter which political party has been at the helm, Democrats or Republicans, the U.S. government and corporations have been the world's primary boosters for the World Trade Organization and globalization. Unfortunately, the heat of debate usually has reduced the complexities of the issue to simplistic slogans and sound bites.

An Antidote to GATT: Stakeholders vs. Stockholders
Article: 2000, in Labornet viewpoints: Global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement. Also posted at: The Humanist, March-April, 1995. With NAFTA behind us and GATT in front of us, it's a sane response for working people to start feeling surrounded. There seems to be little to stop these steamrollers from running us over, as the workers of the world prepare to unite finally -- in the unemployment line. But, Hill points out, there are stubborn pockets of resistance to free trade that have sprung up over the last few years.

Stakeholders vs. Stockholders
Article: 2000, in Labornet viewpoints: Global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement. Hill looks at the enduring legacy of the Pennsylvania law that protects the rights of stakeholders, as opposed to the rights of the stockholders with respect to corporate-community relations. States and communities seeking new strategies to cope with job losses and corporate disinvestment associated with global free trade would do well to understand the opportunities provided by a legal framework solidifying stakeholder rights.

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Stephen Hill Linkography: EU On Top

There's No Place Like Europe: Steven Hill on Medical House Calls, Multiparty Politics, and Other American Fantasies

Interview: Monday 18 October 2010 - by Alissa Bohling for Truthout. While Europe is far from immune to the economic decline and resource scarcity it faces along with the rest of the world, Hill maintains that the continent still leads the globe in building political infrastructures that foster a shared and sustainable prosperity. He heaps plenty of praise on the EU, but he also acknowledges that the world's largest economy knows it still has work to do.

Europe’s Promise – A Cover Interview
Book review: Posted 31 March 2010 - Rorotoko.

Hill's book provides a number of interesting facts on Europe's economic strengths
and dismisses many myths Americans tend have about Europe. First, Europe produces nearly a third of the world’s economy, that's almost as large as the U.S. and China combined. Second, Europe has more Fortune 500 companies than the U.S. and China together. Third, small businesses account for two thirds of the jobs created in Europe. Fourth, Europe is the largest trading partner with both the America and China. And last, Europe's annual growth rate was higher than the U.S. from 1998-2008.

Europe vs the US: Seven Reflections
Article: 26 January 2010 - cafebabel.com: The European Magazine. The EU has produced a ‘Eurosphere’ with some 2 billion people - one third of the world - linked by trade, aid and investment to the EU. So, if Europe isn’t the leader of the world now, who is? China? India? It will be decades - if ever - before these developing countries will achieve Europe or America’s prosperity level. In a make-or-break century beset by a worldwide economic crisis, global warming and geopolitical tensions, the European model has the potential to carry the world forward.

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Stephen Hill Linkography: EU United

Europe and its Revolution - Part 1

Posted in Italian: 30 November 2010 - By Francesca Cannino. (Italian original: L’Europa e la sua rivoluzione 1/2, 30 Novembre 2010 – Gli Euros, Par Francesca Cannino (trad.). (use Google Translate). There is no doubt that Europe can sometimes appear in disarray reeling from one apparent crisis to another. It is facing challenges that seem impossible… Yet in the end, it always gets the job done as is characteristic in a united Europe for the last 60 years.

Europe and its Revolution - Part 2
Posted in Italian: 13 December 2010 - Europe and its revolution By Francesca Cannino. (Italian original: L’Europa e la sua rivoluzione 2/2, 30 Novembre 2010 – Gli Euros, Par Francesca Cannino (trad.) .

The Greek Aftershock - Will it Make or Break Europe?
Article: 19 February 2010 – Social Europe Journal. The Germans and French are about to get a real shock of what ‘union’ means. They didn’t realize that the euro came with a hidden obligation for them to bail out the Greeks and perhaps others during tougher economic times. So far they have agreed to stand behind Greece in return for new restrictions on government spending, but this crisis is going to test their union.

Steven Hill re Europe’s Promise: Q&A
Interview aired: 30 May 2010 - A Terrence McNally Podcast. <

Despite the Crisis, Europe Is the Model for the World
Interview in Czech: 23 February 2011 - Lidove Noviny. Czech title : Evropa je i přes krizi pro svět vzorem – 23 února 2011, Lidove Noviny.(use Google Translate) In this exclusive Q&A interview with the prominent Czech newspaper Lidove Noviny, Hill is questioned primarily about his book, the economic policies of the EU, the Euro crisis, prospects for the future of an integrated Europe and more.

Media ‘Speculators’ Miss History Being Made
In Europe
Article: 19 October 2010 - Social Europe Journal. While the debt crisis has

been messy and noisy, it also has provided a badly needed wake-up call to Europe about a flaw at the heart of its union: namely, while it had a monetary union it lacked a fiscal union. At some point, this flaw had to be dealt with and the Greek situation provided that opportunity. That in turn has resulted in reforms providing sensible financial backstops, regulation and transparency.

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