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c2014., Adult, Random House Call No: 327.59 K175a Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An examination of the future role of the South China sea in international relations and a tour of the the nations surrounding the South China Sea and their interests in the region. In exploring each of these countries individually, Kaplan clearly shows where the conflicts may arise and why they will be challenging for the international community.
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2017., Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company Call No: 320.973 C548g Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The American empire projectSummary Note: In wide-ranging interviews with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks us to consider a world imperiled by climate change and the growing potential for nuclear war. These twelve interviews, conducted from 2013 to 2016, examine the latest developments around the globe: the devastation of Syria, the reach of state surveillance, growing anger over economic inequality, the place of religion in American political culture, and the bitterly contested 2016 U.S. presidential election. In accompanying personal reflections on his Philadelphia childhood and his eighty-seventh birthday, Chomsky also describes his own intellectual journey.
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-- Next hundred years.c2009., Doubleday Call No: 303.49 F911n Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2011., Adult, Doubleday Call No: 909.83 F899n Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Next 100 Years now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world, specifically addressing the skills that will be required by the decade<U+2019>s leaders. The next ten years will be a time of massive transition. The wars in the Islamic world will be subsiding, and terrorism will become something we learn to live with. China will be encountering its crisis. We will be moving from a time when financial crises dominate the world to a time when labor shortages will begin to dominate. The new century will be taking shape in the next decade. In The Next Decade, George Friedman offers readers a pro<U+00AD>vocative and endlessly fascinating prognosis for the immedi<U+00AD>ate future. Using Machiavelli<U+2019>s The Prince as a model, Friedman focuses on the world<U+2019>s leaders --particularly the American president -- and with his trusted geopolitical insight analyzes the complex chess game they will all have to play. The book also asks how to be a good president in a decade of extraordinary challenge, and puts the world<U+2019>s leaders under a microscope to explain how they will arrive at the decisions they will make -- and the consequences these actions will have for us all." --From the publisher.
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-- End of the American era.c2009., John Wiley & Sons Call No: 330.973 P199w Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
