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Trouble in the Heartland

Facing the politics of isolation and anxiety

Alan Elrod
Apr 26
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In late 2000, then-President Bill Clinton, speaking at Warwick University in the U.K., proclaimed that

no generation has ever had the opportunity that all of us now have to build a global economy that leaves no one behind and, in the process, to create a new century of peace and prosperity in a world that is more constructively and truly interdependent.

Nearly two decades later, as a post-graduate student in Warwick’s department of politics and international studies, I often thought about that speech and ponder just how my home state of Arkansas—which I share with former President Clinton—is supposed to fit into the world of the 21st century.

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Alan Elrod
Adjunct Instructor in Political Science at Arkansas State University-Beebe. President of the Pulaski Institution, a think tank.
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