Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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. In No One's World Charles A. Kupchan boldly challenges this view arguing that the world is headed for political and ideological diversity; emerging powers will neither defer to the West's lead nor converge toward the Western way. The ascent of the West was the product of social and economic conditions unique to Europe and the United States. As other regions now rise they are following their own paths to modernity and embracing their own conceptions of domestic and international order. Kupchan contends that the Western order will not be displaced by a new great power or dominant political model. The twenty - first century will not belong to America China Asia or anyone else. It will be no one's world. For the first time in history the world will be interdependent - - but without a center of gravity or global guardian. More than simply diagnosing what lies ahead Kupchan provides a detailed strategy for striking a bargain between the West and the rising rest by fashioning a new consensus on issues of legitimacy sovereignty and governance. Thoughtful provocative sweeping in scope this work is nothing less than a global guidebook for the 21st century.
Title: No One's World The West The Rising Rest And The Coming Global Turn
Author(s): Kupchan Charles A. (Professor Of International Affairs Professor Of International Affairs Georgetown University New York Ny United States)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780199739394
Pages: 272 Pages, 8 B&W Line
Publication Date: 3/1/2012
Category: International Institutions