TY - BOOK AU - Hiro,Dilip TI - After empire: the birth of a multipolar world SN - 1282469649 AV - D 863.3 H668a 2012 U1 - 909.83/1909.831 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Nation Books KW - World politics KW - 2005-2015 KW - PolĂ­tica mundial KW - International relations KW - Relaciones internacionales N1 - Description based upon print version of record; Includes bibliographical references and index; 1 Rise and Fall of the Bipolar World -- 2 America's Place in the Sun-Eclipsed by Wars and a Fiscal Meltdown -- 3 Return of the Russian Bear -- 4 Iran and Venezuela: Oil Fuels Defiance -- 5 China: The Peaceful Rise of a Giant -- 6 India Strives -- 7 The European Union, Work in Progress... -- 8 Democracy: One Size Doesn't Fit All 219 -- 9 Soft Power Challenges to America -- 10 Future Flash Points. N2 - A leading analyst of world affairs argues that from the ruins of American foreign policy will come the balance of 19th-century power politics ER -