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The second world : empires and influence in the new global order
- Title
- The second world : empires and influence in the new global order / Parag Khanna.
- Author
- Khanna, Parag.
- Publication
- New York : Random House, c2008.
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Details
- Description
- xxvii, 466 p. : maps; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-376).
- Contents
- Brussels : the new Rome -- The Russian devolution -- Ukraine : from border to bridge -- The Balkans : eastern questions -- Turkey : marching east and west -- The Caucasian corridor -- Conclusion : stretching Europe -- The silk road and the great game -- The Russia that was -- Tibet and Xinjiang : the new bamboo curtain -- Kazakhstan : "happiness is multiple pipelines" -- Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan : sovereign of everything, master of nothing -- Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan : men behaving badly -- Afghanistan and Pakistan : taming south-central Asia -- Conclusion : a change of heart -- The new rules of the game -- Mexico : the umbilical cord -- Venezuela : Bolívar's revenge -- Colombia : the Andean Balkans? -- Brazil : the southern pole -- Argentina and Chile : very fraternal twins -- Conclusion : beyond Monroe -- The shattered belt -- The Maghreb : Europe's southern shore -- Egypt : between bureaucrats and theocrats -- The Mashreq : road maps -- The former Iraq : buffer, black hole, and broken boundary -- Iran : virtues and vices -- Gult streams -- Conclusion : Arabian sand dunes -- From outside in to inside out -- China's first-world seduction -- Malaysia and Indonesia : the greater Chinese co-prosperity sphere -- Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam : the inner trianble -- Size matters : the four Chinas.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-2276
- ISBN
- 9781400065080 (alk. paper)
- 1400065089 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007025389
- OCLC
- 144773735
- Author
- Khanna, Parag.
- Title
- The second world : empires and influence in the new global order / Parag Khanna.
- Imprint
- New York : Random House, c2008.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-376).
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-2276