Epstein Secrets

sclerosis. But the pessimism is unwarranted, because none of these three challenges is insurmountable. MODERNIZING MUSLIMS The Islamic world, from Morocco to Indonesia, comprises 1.6 billion citizens-more than one in five people on the planet. The vast majority of them share the common global aspirati

l rather than attempts to reinvigorate the existing global system. The origins of the contemporary era lie in the West's transformation during the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution. No other civilization can take credit for giving birth to modernity. This was not done with some

ion seemed possible. Millions of Arabs dreamed of smashing down the border fences erected by the British and French colonists to achieve unity from Morocco in the west to the Gulf states in the east. Once again, reality has fallen woefully below even the most modest expectations". All the ingredients

arrangement. Perhaps, Ethiopia would provide Egypt with water in exchange for security. Should it benefit from some of the energy generated by the Renaissance dam, Egypt can carry out sea water desalination projects that require both energy and money. Ethiopia's unilateral decision to build the Renaissanc

, monarchy has found a way over the decades and centuries to engender a political legitimacy of its own, allowing leaders like King Mohammed VI in Morocco, King Abdullah in Jordan and Sultan Qaboos bin Said in Oman to grant their subjects a wide berth of individual liberties without fear of being over

e championed women's rights, the environment, the large- scale building of schools and other progressive causes. Qaboos, in particular, is sort of a Renaissance man who plays the lute and loves Western classical music, and who—at least until the celebrations in 2010 marking forty years of his rule-eschewed

sclerosis. But the pessimism is unwarranted, because none of these three challenges is insurmountable. MODERNIZING MUSLIMS The Islamic world, from Morocco to Indonesia, comprises 1.6 billion citizens-more than one in five people on the planet. The vast majority of them share the common global aspirati

l rather than attempts to reinvigorate the existing global system. The origins of the contemporary era lie in the West's transformation during the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution. No other civilization can take credit for giving birth to modernity. This was not done with some

nes of defense, the Maginot Line or the Great Wall of China for instance, the aim of 21st century barriers in places like Israel or the US or Spanish Morocco have been less to stop a rolling armor blitzkreig than to slow the insidious movement of smugglers and spies and criminals, or the hopeful dashes of

!. The mouse. Laser printing. A graphical user interface. PARC was arguably the most economically significant small group in human history, an entire Renaissance packed into a couple of dozen offices. Just as the nations that produced the finest mariners once dominated global commerce and decided political que