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FERNANDO HENRIQUE CARDOSO, PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL, LOOKS TO THE FUTURE. HE FINDS THAT A PICTURE IS EMERGING IN WHICH WE CAN SEE A COSMOPOLITAN AND GLOBALIZED "HOMO ECONOMICUS" ALONGSIDE A PROVINCIAL "CIVIS," RESTRICTED BY NATIONAL FRONTIERS. THE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS DISPARITY WILL BE FELT ON A LARGE SCALE AND OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME. PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THESE CONSEQUENCES ARE TIED TO SOCIAL INJUSTICE, THE THREAT OF UNEMPLOYMENT, AND THE OUTRAGEOUS INEQUALITIES, BOTH WITHIN AND AMONG COUNTRIES, THAT COEXIST WITH UNPRECEDENTED LEVELS OF PROSPERITY. TO AVOID FACILE SOLUTIONS TO THIS DILEMMA, WE MUST SQUARELY CONFRONT THE FACT THAT THERE IS A DEFICIT OF DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP AT THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL AND INSIST THAT PROGRESSIVE GOVERNANCE EXPAND BEYOND THE DOMESTIC SCENE.