Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: After publishing articles in leading American journals for over two decades, Kishore Mahbubani was described as "an Asian Toynbee, preoccupied with the rise and fall of civilizations" by The Economist. Trained in philosophy in North America and Asia, and well-experienced in real politik as a diplomat on the world stage, Mahbubani has unusual insight into America's ever more troubled relationship with the rest of the world...read more

The America that Asia and the rest of the world see is revealed in a study that argues that allowing any lasting gap between America and the rest of the world would be a mistake and explains how America can change its course. 40,000 first printing.

A provocative collection of essays challenges the intellectual world of the West, arguing that Western consciousness has become ensnared in intellectual rigidity, and predicts that the twenty-first century will bring about a two-way exhange of ideas between the East and West. Original. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)