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The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
by Parag Khanna
from Random House

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Easy to read, well explained
  There are easy to read, well explained ideas about the state of the world in this book, it is enjoyable and informative.

• Good Overview but...
  This is a "useful" book that reads more like a travel guide of the post-American pre-Chinese-hegemonic world. It promises more than it delivers, offering tantalizing vignettes of different countries dealing with internal problems and external players without really giving you anything to chew on. In truth, the book's title should be "101 Ways China is Kicking America's ..." It spends a great deal of time telling readers how China is playing its diplomatic and economic cards (really the same thing) to the... more info

• Insightful, yet light in some chapters
  I liked this book, complements contemporary readings on world affairs.
  Each chapeter is dedicated to a different world arena, I found Asia, Europe and North America well documented and with depth analysis. But as true as for me that is, I tought the Middle East and Latin America chapteres were not at the same level as the rest.
  I don't think just one book has to cover the whole depth analysis of current global affairs, a wide books can complement.
  But again is a good read.
  

• Not as bad as some say
  From the introduction, Khanna distances himself from other current theorists. In Khanna's description of the world, there are three empires which are competing with each other for influence and power - the US, the EU and China. Each of these empires has differing ways of maintaining empire - the US through coalition; the EU through consensus and China through consultation. Where this new imperial game is played is in the "second world" - states that lie in the income brackets between the first and third... more info

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