TY - BOOK AU - Hiro,Dilip TI - After empire: the birth of a multipolar world SN - 9781568584270 U1 - 909.831 22 PY - 2010///] CY - New York PB - Nation Books KW - World politics KW - 2005-2015 KW - BUEsh KW - Reading book N1 - 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 ER -