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050	0	0	_aD860 _b.R87 1997
082	0	4	_a327.10112
100	1		_aRusi, Alpo, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDangerous peace : _bnew rivalry in world politics / _cAlpo M. Rusi.
264		1	_aBoulder, Colo. : _bWestview Press, _c1997.
300			_ax, 194 pages : _billustrations, map ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 171-182) and index.
505	0	0	_tPreface -- _g1. _tIntroduction -- _g2. _tCollapsing Bipolarity -- _g3. _tEmergence of the New Economic System -- _g4. _tNew Geopolitical Actors on the Rise -- _g5. _tToward A New Global Rivalry -- _g6. _tThe Global Order for the 21st Century: Positive Interrelationship or Conflictual Rivalry? -- _g7. _tConstructing the Real Future -- _tAppendix -- _tBibliography -- _tAbout the Book and Author -- _tIndex.
520			_aExamining 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.
588			_aMachine converted from AACR2 source record.
650		0	_aWorld politics _y1989- _9370595
650		0	_aGeopolitics _9353059
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0831/97013206-b.html
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