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Pax Americana---the global order established after the collapse of the Soviet Empire---is increasingly being challenged especially by former imperial behemoths, China and Russia. As the US ceases to be the sole superpower, today there is an increasing global disorder. This book is a study of the causes and consequences of this disorder, examining alternative claims for a desirable economic policy in which India must assist US in containing China in order to prevent a Third World War.
List of contents
- Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: GEOPOLITICS
Chapter 1: War and Peace
Chapter 2: Geography
Chapter 3: Ideologies
PART II: GEOECONMICS
Chapter 4: The Great Recession and After
Chapter 5: Growth and Global Structural Change
Chapter 6: The United States
Chapter 7: China and India
Chapter 8: Japan, Russia
PART III: A THIRD WORLD WAR?
Chapter 9: The American Imperium
Chapter 10: Towards Global Disorder
Chapter 11: Flashpoints
Chapter 12: India Midst Global Disorder
Conclusions
Notes
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Summary
The Pax Americana---the global order established after the collapse of the Soviet Empire---is increasingly being challenged especially by former imperial behemoths China and Russia. There is a growing chorus questioning the so-called 'Washington Consensus' in favour of a 'Beijing Consensus' in economic policy. As the US ceases to be the sole superpower willing and able to maintain a global PAX, today there is an increasing global 'disorder'. This book is a study of the causes and consequences for this disorder, examining alternative claims for a desirable future economic policy.
The book argues that the origin of this increasing disorder lie, in part, in the great economic recession of 2008 in the US, which has tarnished the free market based capitalism of the West. It goes on to debate that there are four major imperial systems which are and will be involved in the new 'Great Game' in Eurasia---the US and its European outpost---the EU, China, Russia and India and, potentially, Japan as it seeks to alter its post-war pacifist constitution to act like Britain did for many centuries, as the offshore balancer in the struggle for the mastery of Asia, either as a partner or independent of the US. Their strategic decisions will determine whether we will see a repeat of the past, with another completely unnecessary world war like the First World War, or if they will succeed in eschewing this atavism.
