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interact)
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with our partners in the international community. I warmly (to welcome)
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anyone (to 
interest)
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in the Maldives (to pay)
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us a visit in Second Life”.
Ex. 31. 
a) Use of English. Globalization and the State.
b) Choose the best variant.
c) Comment on the influence of globalization on the nation state.
Anti-globalism activists often depict the McDonald’s, Disney, and Coca-Cola corporations 
as agents of globalism or cultural imperialism — a new form of economical/economic (1) 
and political domination. Critics of globalism argue that any business enterprise capable to 
manipulate/of manipulate/of manipulating (2) personal tastes will thrive, whereas state au-
thorities/authority (3) everywhere will lose control over the distribution of goods and ser-
vices. According to this view of world power, military force is perceived as/of as (4) hopelessly 
out-of-the way/out of step/out of the firing line (5) or even powerless; the control of culture 
(and its production) is seen as far/by far (6) more important than the control of political and 
geographic limits/borders/frontiers (7). Certainly, it is true that national boundaries are in-
creasingly permeable and any effort by nations to exclude global pop culture usually makes 
the banned/barred/illegal (8) objects all irresistible/all the most irresistible/all the more ir-
resistible (9).
Arguments regarding the overrosion/corrosion/erosion (10) of state sovereignty are par-
ticularly unsettling for nations that have become consumers not/then/rather then/than/rather 

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than (11) producers of digital technology. the/a/x (12) Post-Soviet Russia, the/a/x (13) post-
Mao China, and the/a/x (14) post-Gaullist France are but three examples of Cold War giants 
facing uncertain futures in the emerging global system. French intellectuals and politicos/
politicians (15) have seized upon anti-globalism as an organizing/organized (16) ideology in 
the absence of other unifying/unified (17) themes. In Les cartes de la France à l’heure de la mon-
dialisation (2000; “France’s Assets in the Era of Globalization”), French Foreign Minister Hubert 
Vedrine announced/denounced/renounced (18) the United States as a “hyperpower” that pro-
motes “uniformity” and “unilateralism.” Speaking for the French intelligentsia, he argued that 
France should take the plunge/take the lead/take the veil (19) in building a “multipolar world.” 
Ordinary/Regular/The rank and file (20) French citizens also were concerned about/with (21) 
losing their national identity, particularly as the regulatory power of the European Union be-
gan to have an effect/affect/sway (22) everyday life. Sixty percent of respondents in a 1999 
L’Expansion poll agreed that globalization represented the greatest threat/risk/jeopardy (23) 
to the French way of life.
Ex. 32. Fill in the gaps with any suitable word.
When public diplomacy issues are discussed, __________ (1) tends to 
be on major powers that are particularly active in this field — China, Israel, Russia, the United 
Kingdom, the United States and a few others. But Romania has now announced that it wants to 
_________ (2) the big guys’ club, and it is taking __________ (3) steps toward doing so.
A new public diplomacy program has been __________ (4) within the office of Romania’s presi-
dent, Traian Basescu, who has put his personal __________ (5) behind its efforts. At a conference 
in Bucharest last week marking the beginning of the new public diplomacy venture, Basescu said, 
“Romania is proud of itself,” and he criticized the common __________ (6) of Romania as the source 
of other countries’ crime problems. This __________ (7) is at least in part a product of racism di-
rected toward Romania’s Roma, or Gypsy, population, members of which are actively __________ 
(8) against throughout much of Europe.
Former foreign minister Cristian Diaconescu, along with his colleague Dan Dima, is directing 
the public diplomacy __________ (9), which he defines as “the management of external percep-
tion… that aims to offer to the international realm the necessary arguments for a solid structuring 
of our credibility and reputation abroad.” For those tempted to think Romania just needs a new 
“brand” identity, Diaconescu said that __________ (10) of Romania “cannot be magically created 
out of imaginative promotion, but must be built on policy.”
All this is encouraging, but Basescu’s team is in the __________ (11) of domestic political bat-
tling that is far nastier than anything seen in other countries. The president and the current foreign 
minister belong to different political parties and are so at __________ (12) that the foreign minis-
try chose to send no representative to the kick-off conference. This needs to be __________ (13). 
In any country, successful public diplomacy requires a long-term commitment that transcends 
__________ (14).
Romania’s new __________ (15) on reaching out to foreign publics — not just other govern-
ments — should be considered a useful step forward in a __________ (16) of ways. It is likely to 
benefit Romania’s regional __________ (17) and it will widen the circle of public diplomacy prac-
titioners. In Europe, the collective political blood pressure tends to reach __________ (18) peaks. 
Public diplomacy may prove a helpful __________ (19).

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