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Book SynopsisAfter a meteoric rise, China's growth has come to a screeching halt. Salvatore Babones provides an up-to-date assessment of how China's economic problems are undermining its challenge to the Western-dominated world order. He tells how liberal individualism has become the leitmotif of American Tianxia.
Trade Review"It is a welcome corrective to the often-unchallenged conventional wisdom that the 21st century belongs to a rising China that is fast overtaking US global predominance." Asian Review of Books
"This is a book that everyone interested in the future of world politics cannot afford to ignore. It argues two important positions: that the USA domination of the world is the most robust and sustainable that can exist; and that China's bid to replace the USA must of necessity fall away. This may seem an unlikely scenario but read American Tianxia before adjusting your prejudices." -- David Goodman, Professor of China Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
"Dismisses the dead end road of hegemonic cycle theories and opens a fresh, sound and convincing analytic frame for the present and future world-system." Prof. Dr. Volker Bornschier, University of Zurich, Switzerland
"An original and persuasive analysis of the changing nature of US dominance....required reading for anyone interested in contemporary history, international relations, and the shape of tomorrow’s world." Robert Holton, Trinity College, Dublin and University of South Australia
"Strikes at the heart of the rise of China argument: that China will replace the United States as the world’s most influential power. Insightful and intellectually sound... an excellent contribution to our understanding of the limits to China’s rise as a global power and America’s enduring centrality to the world order.” Elizabeth Freund Larus, University of Mary Washington
Table of ContentsRight concept, wrong country One master, one sovereign One belt, one road to nowhere The hiatus of history
