Toward a geopolitics of hope / William H. Thornton, Songok Han Thornton.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- After the American century: the de-westernization of globalization -- Russia turns East: Putinism and the making of Kremlin capitalism -- The new China model: power through political underdevelopment -- Tibet's long shadow: China, India, and the Cold War over "Asian values" -- Tibet of the South: Burma as geopolitical testing ground -- Indo-globalization: India and the crisis of Asian democracy -- Race to the bottom: globalization with Chinese characteristics -- Freedom without borders: lessons of the Arab revolt for the globalist West -- Conclusion.

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Toward a Geopolitics of Hope posits a world order marked less by univocal "globalization" than by a grating geopolitics of rival capitalisms. Now that China, Russia, and much of the undemocratic developing world have embraced capitalism, this new Second World can no longer be regarded as a fleeting phenomenon. Globalization turns out to be anything but the steadfast ally of democratization it purports to be. Indeed, the Western democratic experiment of the last two centuries is starting to look very tentative and parochial. For this the West has nothing to blame but itself. In many respects th.

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