TY - BOOK AU - Mahbubani,Kishore TI - The Great Convergence: Asia, the west, and the logic of One World SN - 9781610393690 PY - 2013/// CY - New york PB - PublicAffairs KW - Asia -- Foreign relations KW - Asia -- Foreign economic relations KW - International relations N1 - Includes Index; A new global civilization -- A theory of one world -- Global irrationality -- Seven global contradictions -- Will geopolitics derail convergence? -- A barrier to convergence -- Converging on global convergence -- Conclusion : because everything that rises must converge 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 The enormous blunders since committed by the US and Europe mean deference has been replaced by disquiet.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 ER -