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Narratives For The Next Global Age
Viking
June 2009
On Sale: May 28, 2009
368 pages
ISBN: 067002094X
EAN: 9780670020942
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Journalist Starobin mixes fresh reportage with rigorous
historical analysis to envision a world in which the United
States is no longer the dominant superpower. The American
Century has passed, argues Starobin, due in large part to
America's military overreach in the Middle East; resurgent
nationalism and economic expansion in Russia, China, and
India; the tarnished American model of free-market
capitalism; and the growth of transnational institutions. Following an insightful analysis of America's global
ascendancy, Starobin explores five possible scenarios: an
age of chaos like the one following the collapse of the
Roman Empire; a multipolar order of nations in which America
would be one great power among others; China becoming the
dominant superpower; an age of global city-states; or a form
of world government. A concluding section explores how California--the eighth
largest economy in the world and among the most
sophisticated spots on the planet--is already starting to
move beyond the American Century.
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