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In this stirring memoir, a preeminent politician and diplomat traces the transformation of the Republic of Singapore from a poor colony into an Asian powerhouseGrowing up in poverty in the 1950s, Kishore Mahbubani expected to become a common textile salesman after finishing high school. Instead, a government scholarship sent him to the University of Singapore, and four years later he found himself in the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ...

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This open access book consists of essays written by Kishore Mahbubani to explore the challenges and dilemmas faced by the West and Asia in an increasingly interdependent world village and intensifying geopolitical competition. The contents cover four parts: Part One The End of the Era of Western Domination. The major strategic error that the West is now making is to refuse to accept this reality. The West needs to learn how to act strategicall...

This open access book consists of essays written by Kishore Mahbubani to explore the challenges and dilemmas faced by the West and Asia in an increasingly interdependent world village and intensifying geopolitical competition. The contents cover four parts: Part One The End of the Era of Western Domination. The major strategic error that the West is now making is to refuse to accept this reality. The West needs to learn how to act strategicall...

The twenty-first century's great geopolitical contest has begun. A major trade war has broken out. American and Chinese naval vessels are having close encounters in the South China Sea. American congressmen and businessmen are cheering their government's public attacks on China. China is standing firm and resolute. Who will win this contest? What is at stake? And who will judge the winner?In this book, Kishore Mahbubani evaluates the two sides...

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 unve...

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.

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.

A powerful challenge to the west from an eastern perspective. A look at the rising powers of Asia, Africa and Latin America and how the west should react, drawing on the author's research and personal experience as a diplomat.

It has been 20 years since Kishore Mahbubani first took the bold step of asking the politically incorrect question, "Can Asians think?" His collection of essays has stood the test of time, continuing to resonate with both Asian and Western minds alike over two decades and four editions of the book.

L'ASEAN rappresenta una silenziosa storia di successo. Lontano da clamori mediatici, estranea a posizioni estreme, imperniata sull'efficienza, l'Associazione delle Nazioni del sud-est asiatico ha costruito un modello di convivenza civile, rispetto delle diversità, ricerca di gradualità ambiziosa. In una regione tormentata dai conflitti e a cinquanta anni dalla sua fondazione, ha raggiunto i suoi obiettivi principali: pace, crescita, stabilità,...

Examines ASEAN's 50-year history and present state~Examines ASEAN's 50-year history and present state.~Asserts that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a miracle in an era of growing pessimism and insecurities around economic growth, the peaceful coexistence of western and Islamic societies~Celebrates the progress ASEAN's 625 million inhabitants of different ethnicities, faith and political inclinations in times of pessimissm.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a miracle. In an era of growing cultural pessimism, there is a pervasive belief that different civilizations cannot function together. Yet the ten countries of ASEAN are a thriving counter-example of coexistence. Here, more than 625 million people live together in peace. In 1967, leaders from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand struck a landmark agreement, forming ...

A sweeping survey that proves to be...a counterweight to global gloom and doom. Mr. Mahbubani is a big-picture writer and thinker, a Thomas Friedman with a strong Asian perspective." -The Wall Street Journal

Een nieuwe mondiale werkelijkheid De wereld is in de afgelopen dertig jaar meer veranderd dan in de voorbije drie decennia. Nog nooit zijn er zo veel mensen tot de middenklasse gaan behoren. Ook lijkt het erop dat na de Verenigde Staten en Europa de rest van de wereld de weg naar langdurige vrede heeft ingeslagen. Nooit eerder waren we zo verbonden met elkaar. Kortom: we zijn één wereld aan te worden. Wereldleiders en politici zullen daar dat...

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Mahbubani reveals the America that Asia and the rest of the world see--a country that has given hope to billions by creating a society where destiny is not determined at birth.

Contrary to the prevailing view in the West that the 500-year dominance of Western civilization points to it being the only universal civilization, Can Asians Think? argues that other civilizations may yet make equal contributions to the development and growth of mankind. Hailed as an Asian Toynbee and the Max Weber of the new Confucian ethic, Mahbubani continues to illuminate his central arguments with new essays in this fourth edition.