Global Challenges and the Emerging World Order

• Main Author: Sapelli, Giulio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Popular works.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Political economy.; Economic geography.; Economics.; International economics.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Economics / Management.; Political Economy.; International Economics.; Economic Geography.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.

This book offers a fascinating overview of the challenges posed by the world’s new geostrategic order and likely future directions. It opens with an unconventional view of the Arab Spring, identifying its origins in the relative US withdrawal from the Middle East caused by both the need for military...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• The terrible August 2013
• The start of the Mediterranean crisis
• The world’s economic crisis
• The chickens have come home to roost
• The old and new convergence
• Responding to strategic divergence
• Fossil hydrocarbons and the fragmentation of growth
• The future will be African
• Emerging from the crisis in Europe: changing Europe.