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內容簡介 由西方控制的世界政治即將走到盡頭，財富與權力正從西方流向了東方，全球不穩定的新時代已經開始。「Gideon Rachman對21世紀新興強權較勁的報導，傑出且引人入勝，是少數真正有國際觀點的記者之一。他與北京到華盛頓的世界領袖們會面，為國際政治提供了獨特的觀點。」－－ 英國歷史學家與記者／Andrew Roberts 亞洲國家成長的財富已經轉變了國際權力的平衡，定義我們這個時代潮流的是作者所謂的”東方化”。這股潮流正在形塑全球人民的生活、各國的命運以及戰爭與和平的大問題。難搞而崛起的中國正在挑戰美國的霸主地位，其他亞洲國家包括日本、北韓、印度與巴基斯坦的野心，也有撼動整個世界的潛力。當前的西方國家掙扎於經濟問題、政治的民粹主義，阿拉伯世界動盪不安，而俄羅斯亟欲奪回強權國家的狀態。我們正在歷史的轉捩點，儘管”東方化”還有數十年的時間要走。作者Gideon Rachman提供了動盪過程的路線圖，這個過程將定義21世紀的國際政治。Selected as a Book of the Year by Evening StandardThe West’s domination of world politics is coming to a close. The flow of wealth and power is turning from West to East and a new era of global instability has begun.Easternisation is the defining trend of our age – the growing wealth of Asian nations is transforming the international balance of power. This shift to the East is shaping the lives of people all over the world, the fate of nations and the great questions of war and peace.A troubled but rising China is now challenging America’s supremacy, and the ambitions of other Asian powers – including Japan, North Korea, India and Pakistan – have the potential to shake the whole world. Meanwhile the West is struggling with economic malaise and political populism, the Arab world is in turmoil and Russia longs to reclaim its status as a great power.We are at a turning point in history: but Easternisation has many decades to run. Gideon Rachman offers a road map to the turbulent process that will define the international politics of the twenty-first century.
