The Middle of the Map - Geopolitics of Perceptions

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The author explores how America, China and Europe perceive each other: How do they see each other's roles in the emerging new world order? Are we at the dawn of a new Sino-American bipolar dominance or does Europe still have a role to play? Will the global financial crisis herald the end of Western-style liberal capitalism and the start of an Asian century? What can the world still learn from Europe and what must Europe learn from the rest of the world if it is not to become a cultural museum? These and many other critical contemporary issues are explored by the author in a fascinating tour of world politics and economics enlivened by insightful interviews and pungent observation. Samuel Huntington speaks of the geopolitics of civilizations, Dominique Moisi of the geopolitics of emotions; Marjan considers the geopolitics of perceptions, which at times of change and instability can be all-important.