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The second worldParag Khanna
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The second world

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Grand explanations of how to understand the complex twenty-first-century world have all fallen short--until now. In The Second World, the brilliant young scholar Parag Khanna takes readers on a thrilling global tour, one that shows how America's dominant moment has been suddenly replaced by a geopolitical marketplace wherein the European Union and China compete with the United States to shape world order on their own terms. This contest is hottest and most decisive in the Second World: pivotal regions in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and East Asia. Khanna…

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Editions

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionPenguin Books, Limited2009—9780141930817
EditionRandom House Trade Paperbacks20094669780812979848
EditionPenguin Books, Limited20094969780141027784
EbookRandom House Publishing Group2008—9781588366764
EditionPenguin Books, Limited2008—9780713999372
HardcoverRandom House20084969781400065080
EditionPenguin Random House2008—9781299103269
Balance of powerCommunist countriesFormer communist countriesGeopoliticsGlobalizationNonfictionPoliticsWorld politics