Kishore Mahbubani Bücher

Sie beobachten sich gegenseitig über den Pazifik hinweg mit Argusaugen und reden übereinander statt miteinander: Längst hat der entscheidende geopolitische Wettstreit des 21. Jahrhunderts zwischen China und den USA begonnen – beides Weltmächte ohne ernsthafte Rivalen. Kishore Mahbubani, renommierter und hervorragend vernetzter Diplomat und Gelehrter, analysiert die tiefen Verwerfungen in den Beziehungen zwischen Peking und Washington. Mit unverstelltem Blick erläutert er die Stärken, Schwächen, Fehler und Eigenheiten Chinas und der USA. In Zeiten schwelender Handelskriege und ständiger politischer Konflikte ist sein Buch ein unverzichtbarer Leitfaden für ein besseres Verständnis der beiden Supermächte – insbesondere des unaufhaltsamen Aufsteigers China.

Kishore Mahbubani's essays delve into the complexities of Western and Asian relations amid growing global interdependence and heightened geopolitical rivalry. The book examines the unique challenges and dilemmas each region faces, offering insights into their interactions and the broader implications for international dynamics. Through thoughtful analysis, Mahbubani encourages readers to consider the future of global cooperation and competition in a rapidly changing world.

The twenty-first century's major geopolitical contest is underway, marked by a significant trade war and tense naval encounters in the South China Sea. As American officials rally against China, the latter remains resolute. This analysis evaluates both sides, highlighting China's global ambitions under pragmatic leadership and a resurgence of cultural confidence among its people. Chinese society is now characterized by innovation and dynamism. In contrast, the US has faced setbacks, particularly following the 2008 financial crisis, leading many to question its status as the indispensable nation. The rise of China and the relative decline of the US pose unprecedented challenges for American policymakers, who must confront complacency and revamp both domestic and foreign policies that have eroded the nation’s social foundations and global influence. Without significant changes, the US, a relatively young nation with a smaller population, may struggle to compete with China, the world's oldest continuous civilization. With his characteristic candor, the author provides incisive insights into the strategic stakes and mistakes in this evolving global landscape.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a miracle. Why? In an era of growing cultural pessimism, many thoughtful individuals believe that different civilisations cannot live together in peace. The ten countries of ASEAN provide a thriving counter-example of civilizational co-existence. Here 625m people live together in peace. This miracle was delivered by ASEAN.

A leading global public intellectual explains how, while America became arrogant and distracted, a three-thousand-year-old civilization is well on the way to becoming the number one power in the world.

For centuries, the Asians (Chinese, Indians, Muslims, and others) have been bystanders in world history. Now they are ready to become co-drivers. Asians have finally understood, absorbed, and implemented Western best practices in many from free-market economics to modern science and technology, from meritocracy to rule of law. They have also become innovative in their own way, creating new patterns of cooperation not seen in the West. Will the West resist the rise of Asia? The good news is that Asia wants to replicate, not dominate, the West. For a happy outcome to emerge, the West must gracefully give up its domination of global institutions, from the IMF to the World Bank, from the G7 to the UN Security Council. History teaches that tensions and conflicts are more likely when new powers emerge. This, too, may happen. But they can be avoided if the world accepts the key principles for a new global partnership spelled out in The New Asian Hemisphere.

<b>'A compelling warning ... It is hard to disagree with this advice from such a well-informed friend of the west' Martin Wolf, <i>Financial Times</i></b> The West's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns. How will the West react to its new status of superpower in decline? In Kishore Mahbubani's timely polemic, he argues passionately that the West can no longer presume to impose its ideology on the world, and crucially, that it must stop seeking to intervene, politically and militarily, in the affairs of other nations. He examines the West's greatest follies of recent times: the humiliation of Russia at the end of the Cold War, which led to the rise of Putin, and the invasion of Iraq after 9/11, which destabilised the Middle East. Yet, he argues, essential to future world peace are the Western constructs of democracy and reason, which it must continue to promote, by diplomacy rather than force, via multilateral institutions of global governance such as the UN. Only by recognising its changing status, and seeking to influence rather than dominate, he warns, can the West continue to play a key geopolitical role. 'Kishore Mahbubani might well be the most intelligent, friendly and doggedly persistent critic of the West. In this brief book, he delivers some of his trademark analysis and pungent observations. We should all think of it as the cold shower that is urgently needed to revive the West' Fareed Zakaria, author of <i>The Post-American World</i>

Książka analizuje rywalizację między Chinami a Stanami Zjednoczonymi, kluczowy element kształtujący ład światowy XXI wieku oraz wpływający na pozycję Polski. Autor przybliża różnice polityczne i kulturowe między tymi mocarstwami, wskazując na ich mocne i słabe strony oraz potencjalne błędy w komunikacji. Recenzje, w tym od laureata Nagrody Nobla, Michaela Spence'a, podkreślają doświadczenie Mahbubaniego w dyplomacji i jego umiejętność strategicznego myślenia w złożonych kontekstach. Spence zauważa, że autor doskonale rozumie różnorodność cywilizacyjną. Polscy recenzenci również doceniają wysoki poziom merytoryczny publikacji, która zwiększa wiedzę o przemianach w globalnym ładzie. W obliczu rosnącego znaczenia krajów Azji Południowo-Wschodniej, zwłaszcza Chin, dostęp do informacji na temat tych wyzwań jest kluczowy. Lawrence Summers, były rektor Uniwersytetu Harvarda, stwierdza, że Mahbubani jest najlepszym przewodnikiem po azjatyckiej wizji świata dla ludzi Zachodu.