Millie Tran

This paper was submitted for “Political Science 20: World Politics” with Professor Richard Anderson in Spring 2009. The PDF will be available shortly.
Before 1648 and the Peace of Westphalia, states were grouped in geographical blocks, with a focal point usually being the capital of the empire. However, following the treaty, which recognized the territory and [...]

This paper was submitted for “Political Science 20: World Politics” with Professor Richard Anderson and Michael Stone in Spring 2009. The PDF will be available shortly.
Globalization, as suggested by Nau, is the process of consolidating into a single global economy (273). Nau uses Thomas Friedman’s The Earth is Flat as the framework for the history [...]

This paper was submitted for “Global Studies 100B: Globalization – Contemporary Issues” with Professor Russell Burgos, Professor David Rigby, Professor Dominic Thomas and Aron Ballard in Spring 2009. The PDF will be available shortly.
Globalization has increased communication and decreased transportation costs throughout the past decade, enabling countries to prosper and thrive. Why, then has African [...]

This column was first published in the UCLA Daily Bruin on April 28, 2009.
Imagine: It’s 2059. You’re in the Guiyu of Guangdong Province, China, strolling the streets. The air is crisp and the grass green. The cafe-lined streets are littered with people chatting and typing away on their laptops.
Actually, at this rate, the only thing [...]

This column was first published in the UCLA Daily Bruin on April 3, 2009.
I’ve always wanted to be a meteorologist.
The forecast? Cloudy. Well, the technological forecast, anyway. The next big Internet innovation is cloud computing.
In this case, the “cloud” represents the intricacies of all of the interconnected computers on the Internet. Cloud computing is a [...]