TY  - BOOK
AU  - Serfaty,Simon
TI  - A world recast: an American moment in a post-Western order 
SN  - 9781442215894
AV  - E895 
U1  - 327.73009/05 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Lanham, [Md.]
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
KW  - Geopolitics
KW  - United States
KW  - World politics
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Civilization, Western
KW  - Géopolitique
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Politique mondiale
KW  - 21e siècle
KW  - Civilisation occidentale
KW  - fast
KW  - Diplomatic relations
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Relations extérieures
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-170) and index; Post-Western moment -- Recasting the global system -- Sights of power -- A lone superpower -- Choosing allies -- No time for a time out
N2  - In this powerful and provocative book, distinguished scholar Simon Serfaty vigorously argues that while it is possible, and even desirable, to acknowledge the passing of the Western era, it is exaggerated to present it as an irreversible decline of the United States and the rest of the West, relative to China and the rest of the Rest. Rather, he shows that the unfolding post-Western moment of zero-polarity will be messy, involving a dozen or more other countries. But Serfaty convincingly contends that even during this moment of geopolitical transition, American power remains superior, and thus
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