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Also by Kishore Mahbubani:

The New Asian Hemisphere, February 2008
Hardcover
Beyond the Age of Innocence, April 2006
Hardcover

The New Asian Hemisphere
Kishore Mahbubani

The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East

PublicAffairs
February 2008
On Sale: January 22, 2008
336 pages
ISBN: 1586484664
EAN: 9781586484668
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

For centuries, the Asians (Chinese, Indians, Muslims, and others) have been bystanders in world history. Now they are ready to become co-drivers.

Asians have finally understood, absorbed, and implemented Western best practices in many areas: from free-market economics to modern science and technology, from meritocracy to rule of law. They have also become innovative in their own way, creating new patterns of cooperation not seen in the West.

Will the West resist the rise of Asia? The good news is that Asia wants to replicate, not dominate, the West. For a happy outcome to emerge, the West must gracefully give up its domination of global institutions, from the IMF to the World Bank, from the G7 to the UN Security Council.

History teaches that tensions and conflicts are more likely when new powers emerge. This, too, may happen. But they can be avoided if the world accepts the key principles for a new global partnership spelled out in The New Asian Hemisphere.

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