The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East - Paperback

by Kishore Mahbubani (Author)

For two centuries Asians have been bystanders in world history, reacting defenselessly to the surges of Western commerce, thought, and power. That era is over. Asia is returning to the center stage it occupied for eighteen centuries before the rise of the West.

By 2050, three of the world's largest economies will be Asian: China, India, and Japan. In The New Asian Hemisphere, Kishore Mahbubani argues that Western minds need to step outside their "comfort zone" and prepare new mental maps to understand the rise of Asia. The West, he says, must gracefully share power with Asia by giving up its automatic domination of global institutions from the IMF to the World Bank, from the G7 to the UN Security Council. Only then will the new Asian powers reciprocate by becoming responsible stakeholders in a stable world order.

Author Biography

Kishore Mahbubani is a veteran diplomat whose ten books and numerous articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Financial Times have earned him global recognition as "the muse of the Asian century." A former president of the UN Security Council, he is a distinguished fellow at the National University of Singapore's Asia Research Institute. He lives in Singapore.