Easternization - Asia's Rise and America's Decline from Obama to Trump and Beyond

Zusatztext "With lucid, easily readable prose – as befits the chief foreign affairs columnist of the Financial Times – Easternization examines the ways in which global power is shifting to the East – read mostly China and, to some extent, India – and the challenge that poses to the West and its established order. Donald Trump's election, and his inclination toward isolationism, only make this book, and its argument, more relevant." — NPR, ‘BEST BOOKS OF 2017’ Selection “Informed on history and up to date, [ Easternization ] is a sprightly, pointed primer on world affairs.” —Foreign Affairs   “Gideon Rachman’s Easternization , his new survey of a transformed Asia, admirably does what so little writing on foreign affairs attempts. It treats with equal facility economics, geopolitics, security, enough history for needed background, official thinking, and public attitudes. Rachman, chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times , has an eye for the telling statistic and for the memorable detail that makes it stick. He packs an enormous amount of information into a short book and opens windows of understanding for nonexperts onto this immensely important three fifths of humanity.” —New York Review of Books “A superb survey of global affairs.”— Fareed Zakaria, CNN "The domination of the Atlantic rim nations over the rest of the globe may seem like it is fated, since it has been the power dynamic for nearly half a millennium. But the truth, as Mr. Rachman points out, is that it is an anomaly in the longer-run pattern of history…In “Easternization,” Mr. Rachman, the foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times, offers a birds-eye view of the transformation—some would say collapse—of the post-World War II global order. In brisk, engaging prose, he takes us around the world in 14 chapters, beginning with Asia, then moving to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and what he calls the “borderlands” between East and West, including Ukraine, Turkey and Hungary…Asia’s new predominance—which essentially means China’s increasing power—is taken as the starting point of Mr. Rachman’s narrative. He makes the convincing, chilling case that the military gap between the United States and China is rapidly narrowing and that the “focal point of Chinese-American military rivalry is the control of the Western Pacific,” which is now “disputed territory.” Reviewing China’s challenge to America’s decadeslong predominance in Asia’s waters, Mr. Rachman links it to a broader Chinese goal, led by Mr. Xi, of finally overcoming China’s so-called “century of humiliation.”This is a fascinating story…” —WALL STREET JOURNAL “This intelligent and provocative new book by [ The Financial Times ] leading Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, Gideon Rachman, reminds us of different requirements for journalistic excellence: historical education, engagement in scholarly debates and tireless travel to interview global decision-makers.” —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW “Weaving a smattering of history with insights gleaned from his interviews with global power players, Rachman offers a fast-paced and diverting analysis of the challenges facing U.S. foreign policy in the Pacific.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY “A focused delineation of the shifting center of gravity toward Asia and the need for a strenuous Western response without losing global primacy. Financial Times chief foreign affairs commentator Rachman ( Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an...

Product details

• Authors: Gideon Rachman
• Publisher: Other press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781590518519
• ISBN: 978-1-59051-851-9
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 236 mm x 27 mm
• Subject: Non-fiction book