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Thanks to the draining effects of the Iraq war and the financial meltdown emanating from Wall Street, a powershift away from American dominance is taking place. Caught between a rising China and an America in relative decline, the new leadership in Japan is recalibrating its post‐World War II relationships. The G‐20 has usurped the role once played by the G‐8 as the governing committee of globalization. And the symbiotic coupling of "Chimerica", born out of the credit bubble built up over the past two decades, is being put to the test.In this section, the new prime minister of Japan, the president of the European Union, the president of Brazil and a leading economic historian assess these shifts.

On Stochastic Coherent Systems -- Multistate Systems in Reliability Theory -- Improving Fail-Safe Characteristics of Multivalued-Output Systems through the use of Redundancy -- Discrete Replacement Models -- Analytical Considerations on Inspection Policies -- Reliability and Preventive Maintenance of a Two-Unit Standby Redundant System with Different Failure Time Distributions -- Reliability and Maintainability of a Multicomponent Series-Parallel System with Simultaneous Failure under Preemptive Repeat Repair Discipline -- Performance/Reliability Modeling for Multi-Processor Systems with Computational Demands -- Nonhomogeneous Error Detection Rate Models for Software Reliability Growth -- Inflection S-Shaped Software Reliability Growth Model -- Optimal Replacement Policy for Components in a Coherent System under Jump Deterioration -- An Optimal Inspection and Replacement Policy of a Markovian Deterioration System -- An Optimal Inspection and Replacement Policy under Incomplete State Information: Average Cost Criterion -- Application of Markovian Decision Theory to the Problem of Highway Maintenance.