After empire : the birth of a multipolar world /
Dilip Hiro.
- New York : Nation Books, c2010.
- v, 348 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-320) and index.
Rise and fall of the bi-polar world -- America's place in the sun-eclipsed by wars and fiscal meltdown -- Return of the Russian bear -- Iran and Venezuela : oil fuels defiance -- China : the peaceful rise of a giant -- India strives -- European Union, work in progress -- Democracy : one size doesn't fit all -- Soft power challenges to America -- Future flash points.