The second world how emerging powers are redefining global competition in the twenty-first century
Pt. I: The West's East. Brussels : the new Rome ; The Russian devolution ; Ukraine : from border to bridge ; The Balkans : eastern questions ; Turkey : marching east and west ; The Caucasian corridor ; Conclusion : stretching Europe -- Pt. II: Affairs of the heartland. The Silk Road and the Gre...
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New York, NY
Random House Trade Paperbacks
2009, c2008
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| Ausgabe: | Random House trade pbk. ed |
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Globalisierung
> Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen
> Internationaler Wettbewerb
> Internationale Beziehungen
> Geopolitik
> USA
> Welt
> World politics
> 21st century
> Geopolitics
> Globalization
> Balance of power
> Communist countries
> Former communist countries
> Europäische Union
> China
> Internationale Politik
> Weltwirtschaft
> Gleichgewichtspolitik
> Schwellenländer
> Weltpolitik
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Pt. I: The West's East. Brussels : the new Rome ; The Russian devolution ; Ukraine : from border to bridge ; The Balkans : eastern questions ; Turkey : marching east and west ; The Caucasian corridor ; Conclusion : stretching Europe -- Pt. II: Affairs of the heartland. The Silk Road and the Great Game ; The Russia that was ; Tibet and Xinjiang : the new bamboo curtain ; Kazakhstan : "happiness is multiple pipelines" ; Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan : sovereign of everything, master of nothing ; Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan : men behaving badly ; Afghanistan and Pakistan : taming south-central Asia ; Conclusion: A change of heart -- Pt. III: The end of the Monroe Doctrine. The new rules of the game ; Mexico : the umbilical cord ; Venezuela : Bolívar's revenge ; Colombia : the Andean Balkans? ; Brazil : the southern pole ; Argentina and Chile : very fraternal twins ; Conclusion : beyond Monroe -- Pt. IV: In search of the "Middle East." The shattered belt ; The Maghreb : Europe's southern shore ; Egypt : between bureaucrats and theocrats ; The Mashreq : road maps ; The former Iraq : buffer, black hole, and broken boundary ; Iran : virtues and vices ; Gulf streams ; Conclusion: Arabian sand dunes -- Pt. V: Asia for Asians. From outside in to inside out ; China's first-world seduction ; Malaysia and Indonesia : the greater Chinese co-prosperity sphere ; Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam : the inner triangle ; Size matters : the four Chinas -- Conclusion: The search for equilibrium in a non-American world This global tour of the 21st century world shows how America's dominance has been suddenly replaced by a geopolitical marketplace wherein the European Union and China compete with the United States to shape world order. This contest is hottest in the Second World: pivotal regions in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and East Asia |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-441) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xxvii, 466 p. maps 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 0812979842 0-8129-7984-2 9780812979848 978-0-8129-7984-8 |