The new Asian hemisphere the irresistible shift of global power to the East
- New York PublicAffairs 2008
- x, 314 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-293) and index.
For two centuries Asians have been bystanders in world history, reacting defenselessly to the surges of Western commerce, thought, and power. That era is over. Asia is returning to the center stage it occupied for eighteen centuries before the rise of the West.