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Flashpoints: Promise and Peril in a New World

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At the dawn of a new political era, the world is witnessing both violent upheaval and new opportunity on a scale unknown since the discovery of the New World. Reporting from all six inhabited continents, with new material on the Soviet Union's collapse, award-winning journalists Robin Wright and Doyle McManus draw a vivid map of emerging trends that will shape the twenty-first century. It is a world in which:

- Democracy is facing the same challenges socialism did; many new democracies will fail.
- Economic strength is more important than military might; the superpowers are being replaced by "major powers" like Japan and Germany.
- Ethnic and nationalist conflicts are redrawing the world map; dozens of new nations will be born in this decade.
- Weapons of mass destruction are proliferating despite the Cold War's end; smaller countries now pose the same threat as the bigger powers.
- Migration, at a record high, has become a dangerous political issue dividing the wealthy North from the poorer South.
- The power of the individual is spawning a new generation of unconventional leaders, rising from the masses, not the elite.

Praise for Flashpoints

"Alarming . . . intriguing . . . a cogent and thoughtful work . . . [by] two of America's more accomplished journalists."--San Francisco Chronicle

"A timely and stimulating book."--Senator Richard G. Lugar, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

"A brilliant primer . . . fascinating."--Walter F. Mondale

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Release: December 22, 1992

ISBN: 0449906736

ISBN 13: 9780449906736

Flashpoints: Promise and Peril in a New World

3.5/5 ( ratings)

At the dawn of a new political era, the world is witnessing both violent upheaval and new opportunity on a scale unknown since the discovery of the New World. Reporting from all six inhabited continents, with new material on the Soviet Union's collapse, award-winning journalists Robin Wright and Doyle McManus draw a vivid map of emerging trends that will shape the twenty-first century. It is a world in which:

- Democracy is facing the same challenges socialism did; many new democracies will fail.
- Economic strength is more important than military might; the superpowers are being replaced by "major powers" like Japan and Germany.
- Ethnic and nationalist conflicts are redrawing the world map; dozens of new nations will be born in this decade.
- Weapons of mass destruction are proliferating despite the Cold War's end; smaller countries now pose the same threat as the bigger powers.
- Migration, at a record high, has become a dangerous political issue dividing the wealthy North from the poorer South.
- The power of the individual is spawning a new generation of unconventional leaders, rising from the masses, not the elite.

Praise for Flashpoints

"Alarming . . . intriguing . . . a cogent and thoughtful work . . . [by] two of America's more accomplished journalists."--San Francisco Chronicle

"A timely and stimulating book."--Senator Richard G. Lugar, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

"A brilliant primer . . . fascinating."--Walter F. Mondale

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Release: December 22, 1992

ISBN: 0449906736

ISBN 13: 9780449906736

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