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Dangerous peace : new rivalry in world politics / Alpo M. Rusi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1997Description: x, 194 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0813322588
  • 9780813322582
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.10112
LOC classification:
  • D860 .R87 1997
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Collapsing Bipolarity -- 3. Emergence of the New Economic System -- 4. New Geopolitical Actors on the Rise -- 5. Toward A New Global Rivalry -- 6. The Global Order for the 21st Century: Positive Interrelationship or Conflictual Rivalry? -- 7. Constructing the Real Future -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- About the Book and Author -- Index.
Summary: Examining the international system from a geopolitical and geoeconomic perspective, Alpo Rusi provides a broad vision and bold forecast of the emerging strategic landscape for the coming century. An asymmetrical world system is emerging. The United States is now the sole true world power; it forms the core of a unipolar order characterized by an uneven division of world power and economic resources. Rusi argues, however, that this post-Cold War "order" will not survive into the next century. Rusi suggests that the power vacuum in the former Soviet empire will be filled by China in Asia and by the European Union in Eastern Europe, Russia's disintegration and decline in world power status will continue but may have reached its bottom line economically, and Islam will gain strength in various parts of the world, embracing a new international role. He also predicts that the world will be split into four or five distinct trading blocs: A European bloc formed around the European Union; an East Asian bloc, potentially strong, interventionist, and even aggressive, formed around China and the Singapore economic region; Japan, as a strong and still competitive economic power; and a Pan-American bloc, also strong but potentially isolationist, formed around the United States. One of the question marks will be the future ability of an orthodox Russia to facilitate conditions for an economic space. Rusi warns that it is crucial for the European and Pan-American blocs to build upon the traditional Euro-Atlantic relationship. Without it, he argues, a truly polarized - and potentially hostile - bloc system could take root, most likely lining the "Western panregions" against China's expansiveness.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-182) and index.

Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Collapsing Bipolarity -- 3. Emergence of the New Economic System -- 4. New Geopolitical Actors on the Rise -- 5. Toward A New Global Rivalry -- 6. The Global Order for the 21st Century: Positive Interrelationship or Conflictual Rivalry? -- 7. Constructing the Real Future -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- About the Book and Author -- Index.

Examining the international system from a geopolitical and geoeconomic perspective, Alpo Rusi provides a broad vision and bold forecast of the emerging strategic landscape for the coming century. An asymmetrical world system is emerging. The United States is now the sole true world power; it forms the core of a unipolar order characterized by an uneven division of world power and economic resources. Rusi argues, however, that this post-Cold War "order" will not survive into the next century. Rusi suggests that the power vacuum in the former Soviet empire will be filled by China in Asia and by the European Union in Eastern Europe, Russia's disintegration and decline in world power status will continue but may have reached its bottom line economically, and Islam will gain strength in various parts of the world, embracing a new international role. He also predicts that the world will be split into four or five distinct trading blocs: A European bloc formed around the European Union; an East Asian bloc, potentially strong, interventionist, and even aggressive, formed around China and the Singapore economic region; Japan, as a strong and still competitive economic power; and a Pan-American bloc, also strong but potentially isolationist, formed around the United States. One of the question marks will be the future ability of an orthodox Russia to facilitate conditions for an economic space. Rusi warns that it is crucial for the European and Pan-American blocs to build upon the traditional Euro-Atlantic relationship. Without it, he argues, a truly polarized - and potentially hostile - bloc system could take root, most likely lining the "Western panregions" against China's expansiveness.

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