English translation of: Āfāq al-ʻaṣr al-Amrīkī: al-siyādah wa-al-nufūdh fī al-niẓām al-ʻālamī al-jadīd /Jamāl Sanad al-Suwaydī.
Issued with a CD-ROM containing an audio book version and a USB key card containing an ebook version.
"Jamal Sanad Al-Suwaidi is the Director General of the Emirates Center for Strategic Study and Research (ECSSR) and a professor of political science at UAE university"--Dust jacket.Includes bibliographic references (pages 771-845), and index."The main premise of the book is that the United States of America may be considered the dominant pole in the new world order, and that the world will continue to exist in an American age that is expected to extend for at least a further five decades. The qualitative supremacy of the United States of America has proven inescapable according to the data, statistics and information presented in this book, as well as the scales and variables of comparison adopted by the author in terms of economics, military advancement, energy resources, transportation, education, culture, and technological progress. According to these standards, the structure of the new world order may be described as a hierarchy, with the United States of America alone at the top, followed by a second tier comprising Russia, China and the European Union, a third tier consisting of Japan, India and Brazil, followed by the rest of world. The introduction to this book may be considered a basic foundation for the analysis presented in the following seven chapters, which examine the emergence, current status, and future of the new world order in its various dimensions."--Tranlsated from Arabic.Spec. Coll. copy: Presentation copy. Bound in metallic silver paper boards stamped in silver foil; textured steel gray endpapers; gray silk bookmark; glossy colored illustrated dust jacket. In elaborate molded faux wood box with hinged cover and two pair of metal clasps; title and title illustration stamped in silver on gray paper, affixed to center octagonal niche in lid of box; ornamental border stamped in silver; book rests in molded gray niche inset; printed presentation note of the author on inside lid, dated 26 February 2014. Wrapped in protective dark green cloth; in drop spine gray box with lid printed in dark blue. Gift of David Hirsch, 2014.