期刊名称：International Institute for Asian Studies Annual Report
出版年度：2008
卷号：2008
期号：03
页码：28-28
出版社：International Institute for Asian Studies
摘要：Kishore Mahbubani, Singaporean Professor, former UN Ambassador
and public intellectual describes a world fundamentally transformed
since the end of the Cold War. In it, Asia and Asians are re-claiming the
prominent role they played before the surge of Western industrial and
imperial power over the last two centuries. This is a world in which Asian
countries are no longer the ‘objects’ of international relations to be acted
upon by the Western powers, but ‘actors’ in their own right. Mahbubani
contends that the rise of Asia is ‘unstoppable’. By 2050 three of the
four world’s largest economies will be Asian: China, India, and Japan,
alongside the United States. We are therefore facing a seismic shift in
the redistribution of power from the West to the East. This, Mahbubani is
careful to point out, does not mean that the West will not remain a major
global force, but it will lose the predominance of economic, political, and
institutional power it has enjoyed to date. He argues that this should be a
positive development overall, but everything will depend on how the West
responds to its relative loss of global hegemony.
