Preparing for the twenty-first century / Paul Kennedy.
Record details
- ISBN: 0394584430
- ISBN: 9780394584430
- Physical Description: xvi, 428 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Random House, 1993.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-405) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue : old challenges and new challenges -- The demographic explosion -- The communications and financial revolution and the rise of the multinational corporation -- World agriculture and the biotechnology revolution -- Robotics, automation, and a new industrial revolution -- The dangers to our natural environment -- The future of the nation-state -- The Japanese "plan" for a post-2000 world -- India and China -- Winners and losers in the developing world -- The erstwhile USSR and its crumbled empire -- Europe and the future -- The American dilemma -- Preparing for the twenty-first century. |
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| Subject: | Twenty-first century. |
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