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Article: Introduction.(Views from the UK, Mexico, Germany and France)(United States)
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- Social Research
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- December 22, 2005
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AS THIS CONFERENCE, "THEIR AMERICA," TOOK PLACE IN OCTOBER 2004, that year's presidential election was not much more than two weeks away. A feeling was widespread--not only within the country but around the world--that the United States was about to make a decision of uncommon importance.
The impetus for the conference stemmed from a recognition that the election's outcome would be almost as crucial for the nonvoting 6 billion people outside America's borders as for the roughly 290 million people within them. Though the focus of the discussion was not the election itself, the New School had in a sense given a dozen or so of the billions a chance to vote.
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