No one's world : the West, the rising rest, and the coming global turn / Chales A. Kupchan.
The world is on the cusp of a global turn. Between 1500 and 1800, the West sprinted ahead of other centers of power in Asia and the Middle East. Europe and the United States have dominated the world since. But today the West's preeminence is slipping away as China, India, Brazil and other emerg...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2012]
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Summary: | The world is on the cusp of a global turn. Between 1500 and 1800, the West sprinted ahead of other centers of power in Asia and the Middle East. Europe and the United States have dominated the world since. But today the West's preeminence is slipping away as China, India, Brazil and other emerging powers rise. Although most strategists recognize that the dominance of the West is on the wane, they are confident that its founding ideas democracy, capitalism, and secular nationalism will continue to spread, ensuring that the Western order will outlast its primacy. |
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| Item Description: | "A Council on Foreign Relations book.". |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 258 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0190252472 0199930627 1280595043 9780190252472 9780199930623 9781280595042 |