To Be an Enlightened Superpower
That the United States will continue to play a leading role in the world is a given. The question is not whether but how it should play this role. Here is a Chinese perspective on how the United States can act as an enlightened superpower.
The new normalcy
In its summer 2001 issue, The Washington Quarterly published twelve global authors’ responses to the question, “In the ideal world, what role would you want the United States to perform with your country and region?” In this issue, three U.S. authors reply to them, particularly in light of the terrorist attacks on September 11… The summer 2001 “Through the Looking Glass” authors could not have anticipated the events of September 11. Yet they did anticipate tests of U.S. will and leadership that will now shape the final form of the world's new normalcy.
Monte Carlo simulations of magnetovolume instabilities in anti-Invar systems
We perform constant pressure Monte Carlo simulations of a spin-analogous model which describes coupled spatial and magnetic degrees of freedom on an fcc lattice. Our calculations qualitatively reproduce magnetovolume effects observed in some rare earth manganese compounds, especially in the anti-Invar material YMn2. These are a sudden collapse of the magnetic moment which is connected with a huge volume change, and a largely enhanced thermal expansion coefficient.