RESTLESS CONTINENT: WEALTH, RIVALRY AND ASIA’S NEW GEOPOLITICS
Book ID/图书代码： 01899515B82476
English Summary/英文概要： An essential road-map for a region in transition.
The world has never seen economic development as rapid or significant as Asia’s during recent decades. Home to three-fifths of humanity, this restless continent will soon produce more than half of the world’s economic output and consume more energy than the rest of the world combined. All but three of the planet’s current and nascent nuclear powers are Asian, and it has the greatest growth in weapons spending of any other region.
Surprisingly little hard thinking has been done about the future of Asia. Restless Continent is the first book to examine the economic, social, political and strategic trends across the world’s largest continent and present a road-map for thinking about Asia’s future – and the world.
It looks at the psychology of countries becoming newly rich and powerful. It explores the ‘corridors of blood’ – the geography and politics of conflict. And it makes a case about how to avert a plunge into dispute, or even war.
Written for general reader and policy specialist alike, Restless Continent is an agenda-shaping book about the shape of international affairs in the twenty-first century.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 转型中地区的必备地图指南。
在全球范围内，从来就没有一个国家和地区像亚洲一样，能够在近来短短几十年间实现了经济的迅速和惊人增长。
作为全人类五分之三人口的寓居地，这块躁动的大陆很快便将产生全球一半以上的经济产量，并需求比全球剩余地区加起来都还要大的能源消耗量。目前，除了三个国家以外，这个星球上所有现存和初生的核国家均来自亚洲，更重要的是亚洲对于武器消耗的增长速度远远超过了其他地区。
令我们意外的是，对于亚洲的未来，人们似乎并未作出太多深入考虑。《躁动的大陆》是迄今为止第一部对这个全球最大大陆的经济、社会、政治及政策趋势进行审视考量的书籍，并为我们进一步思考亚洲，乃至是整个世界的未来提供了一张生动的“地图”。
本书关注这些新晋经济和实力强国们的心理历程，探索了这段“血缘回廊”---地缘和政治冲突因素，并用实际案例说明如何避免冲突的产生，甚至是战争的爆发。
《躁动的大陆》既适合于一般读者，同时也适合政策专家们进行阅读，可谓是一本有关于21世纪国际时事格局的日程书。（DC）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 迈克尔•韦斯利是一名世界一流亚洲与国际时事专家。其作品曾被刊登在《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》《金融时报》和《经济学人》等报刊杂志上。其上一部作品There Goes the Neighbourhood: Australia and the Rise of Asia荣获了2011年约翰•巴顿奖。他是洛伊国际事务研究所前任所长，现担任澳大利亚国立大学全球政治与政策研究教授。
Michael Wesley is one of the world’s leading experts on Asian and international affairs. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and the Economist. His previous book, There Goes the Neighbourhood: Australia and the Rise of Asia, won the 2011 John Button Prize. He is a former head of the Lowy Institute for International Policy, and currently Professor and Director of International, Political and Strategic Studies at the Australian National University.
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