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Book SynopsisThanks to globalization, more countries depend on each other for trade, capital, and ideas than ever before. Yet politically, these countries are drifting further apart. In
Seeing the Elephant, author and emerging markets expert Peter Marber describes how increasing economic integration and the rise of new actors is drastically altering the geopolitical landscape, and offers insights on how the US can maintain a leading role in the 21st century and beyond.
While America remains the single most important economy today, rising economic powerhouses China, Russia, India, Brazil and others bring a diverse set of interests to the table that the US cannot afford to ignore, Marber explains. Moreover, globalization has created thousands of non-state actors corporations, banks, hedge funds, activists and even terrorists who bring their own concerns to bear on the world system.
In the era of globalization, America''s success hinges on the success of its neighbors, too. Yet f
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xiii
Chapter 1: Seeing the Elephant in the Twenty-First Century 1
Chapter 2: Trade and Finance: Money, Money Everywhere 43
Chapter 3: Energy: Twilight of the Hydrocarbons? 95
Chapter 4: Defense and Security: Preventing the Next War, Not Fighting the Last 137
Chapter 5: Immigration: People, People Anywhere 181
Chapter 6: Promoting Tomorrow’s Health Instead of Paying for Yesterday's Ills 215
Chapter 7: Environment: The Hidden Cost of Everything 249
Chapter 8: Poverty: Remembering the Bottom of the Pyramid 291
Chapter 9: Driving with a New Dashboard in the Macro Quantum World 323
Notes 349
Index 401
