TY - BOOK AU - Hiro,Dilip TI - After empire: the birth of a multipolar world SN - 9781568584270 (alk. paper) AV - D863.3 .H57 2010 U1 - 909.83/1 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Nation Books KW - World politics KW - 2005-2015 N1 - 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 ER -