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" The second world : "
Parag Khanna
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BL
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697503
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b519692
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| Main Entry
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Khanna, Parag
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| Title & Author
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The second world : : empires and influence in the new global order /\ Parag Khanna
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Random House,, c2008
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xxvii, 466 p. :: maps ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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1400065089 (alk. paper)
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: 9781400065080 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-376)
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| Contents
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Brussels : the new Rome -- The Russian devolution -- Ukraine : from border to bridge -- The Balkans : eastern questions -- Turkey : marching east and west -- The Caucasian corridor -- Conclusion : stretching Europe -- The silk road and the great game -- The Russia that was -- Tibet and Xinjiang : the new bamboo curtain -- Kazakhstan : "happiness is multiple pipelines" -- Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan : sovereign of everything, master of nothing -- Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan : men behaving badly -- Afghanistan and Pakistan : taming south-central Asia -- Conclusion : a change of heart -- The new rules of the game -- Mexico : the umbilical cord -- Venezuela : Bolívar's revenge -- Colombia : the Andean Balkans? -- Brazil : the southern pole -- Argentina and Chile : very fraternal twins -- Conclusion : beyond Monroe -- The shattered belt -- The Maghreb : Europe's southern shore -- Egypt : between bureaucrats and theocrats -- The Mashreq : road maps -- The former Iraq : buffer, black hole, and broken boundary -- Iran : virtues and vices -- Gulf streams -- Conclusion : Arabian sand dunes -- From outside in to inside out -- China's first-world seduction -- Malaysia and Indonesia : the greater Chinese co-prosperity sphere -- Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam : the inner trianble -- Size matters : the four Chinas
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Balance of power
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Geopolitics
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Globalization
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World politics-- 21st century
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Communist countries
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Former communist countries
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| Dewey Classification
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327.1
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D863.K53 2008
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D863.K53 2008
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