After empire : the birth of a multipolar world /

Hiro, Dilip,

After empire : the birth of a multipolar world / Dilip Hiro. - v, 348 pages : maps ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rise and fall of the bi-polar world -- America's place in the sun-eclipsed by wars and fiscal meltdown -- Return of the Russian bear -- Iran and Venezuela : oil fuels defiance -- China : the peaceful rise of a giant -- India strives -- European Union, work in progress -- Democracy : one size doesn't fit all -- Soft power challenges to America -- Future flash points.

9781568584270 156858427X


World politics--2005-2015.

--Reading book

909.831 / HIR