1  Cover

      2  Table of Contents

      3  Endorsement Page

      4  Title Page

      5  Copyright

      6  Dedication

      7  The pendulum

      8  Begin Reading

      9  Watershed

      10  Acknowledgements

      11  Further reading

      12  Index

      13  End User License Agreement

      1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1. World development indicatorsFigure 1.2. Selected growth indicators for the WestFigure 1.3. The evolution of the net international investment positionFigure 1.4. Share of authoritarian countries in total imports of EU and USFigure 1.5. Economic and political globalizationFigure 1.6. Accumulated length of border fences and wallsFigure 1.7. People living below US$5.2 PPP per dayFigure 1.8. People employed as share of people between 15 and 64 years oldFigure 1.9. Deaths caused by homicide, armed conflicts, and terrorismFigure 1.10. Number of armed conflicts and forcibly displaced peopleFigure 1.11. Global military spendingFigure 1.12. Fueling economic growthFigure 1.13. Global US$ of GDP per kg of transportFigure 1.14. GDP per kg plastic waste

      2 Chapter 2Figure 2.1. The purpose of studying among American university students 4.1. The detaching of…

      3 Chapter 7Figure 7.1. Growth of household incomeFigure 7.2. Trust in governmentFigure 7.3. “EU membership is a good thing for my country”

      4 Chapter 8Figure 8.1. Lenders and borrowers

      5 Chapter 9Figure 9.1. The share of China, India, and Japan in Asia’s total GDPFigure 9.2. Africa’s commodity trap 11.1. Middle East fuel exports

      6 Chapter 13Figure 13.1. The strength of the rising powers

      1 Chapter 2Map 2.1. America’s world

      2 Chapter 3Map 3.1. The Soviet sphereMap 3.2. The China sphere

      1 Chapter 1Table 1.1. Basic indicators of Western power

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