TY - BOOK AU - Mahbubani,Kishore TI - The great convergence: Asia, the West, and the logic of one world SN - 9781610390330 (hardcover) U1 - 327.50182/1 KW - International relations KW - International economic relations KW - Globalization KW - Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 KW - East and West N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-297) and index N2 - Before the current international economic crisis, Asian policymakers deferred to their Western counterparts. The enormous blunders since committed by the US and Europe mean deference has been replaced by disquiet. Asia's concern is that the world will soon come to grief if both the US and Europe fail to make fundamental readjustments. An America and EU that takes serious economic measures will cause the rest of the world pain, as Western consumption and imports diminish. But there is no painless solution: only when the West gets its house in order can Asia hope for a more sustainable future UR - https://uowd.box.com/s/eowwpl5lbn8hekot1p9aacupesgnl9bs ER -