When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order.(Brief article)(Book review)

* When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order

Martin Jacques. Penguin Press, $29.95

(576p) ISBN 978-1-59420-185-1

A convincing economic, political and cultural analysis of waning Western dominance and the rise of China and a new paradigm of modernity. Jacques (The Politics of Thatcherism) takes the pulse of the nation poised to become, by virtue of its scale and staggering rate of growth, the biggest market in the world. Jacques points to the decline of American hegemony and outlines specific elements of China's rising global power and how these are likely to influence international relations in the …