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The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World OrderKindle Edition
by Bruno Maçães (Author)
5 out of 5 stars 2 reviews from Amazon.com
In this original and timely book, Bruno Maçães argues that the best word for the emerging global order is 'Eurasian', and shows why we need to begin thinking on a super-continental scale. While China and Russia have been quicker to recognise the increasing strategic significance of Eurasia, even Europeans are realizing that their political project is intimately linked to the rest of the supercontinent - and as Maçães shows, they will be stronger for it.
Weaving together history, diplomacy and vivid reports from his six-month overland journey across Eurasia from Baku to Samarkand, Vladivostock to Beijing, Maçães provides a fascinating portrait of this shifting geopolitical landscape. As he demonstrates, we can already see the coming Eurasianism in China's bold infrastructure project reopening the historic Silk Road, in the success of cities like Hong Kong and Singapore, in Turkey's increasing global role and in the fact that, revealingly, the United States is redefining its place as between Europe and Asia.
An insightful and clarifying book for our turbulent times, The Dawn of Eurasia argues that the artificial separation of the world's largest island cannot hold, and the sooner we realise it, the better.
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Product details
Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 17214 KB
Print Length: 268 pages
Publisher: Penguin; 2 edition (25 January 2018)
Sold by: Penguin UK
Language: English
ASIN: B074Q6W7FB
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Amazon.com: 5.0 out of 5 stars 2 reviews
jose chalhoub
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat book on eurasian geopolitics
30 December 2018 - Published on Amazon.com
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Very good book and illuminating on the unfolding geopo]-litical order in Eurasia and necessary for our times to read it.One person found this helpful.
T. Stroll
5.0 out of 5 stars
Reveals a part of the world that's terra incognita to many of us
7 January 2019 - Published on Amazon.com
The author, a former Portuguese diplomat, political science PhD and think-tank habitué, travels to remote and sometimes dangerous places east of Poland and west of China, parts of the world one doesn't think much about. His travel descriptions and encounters with people are remarkable.
Who knew that there's now a direct train line between the city of Yiwu, China, located near Shanghai on the Pacific coast, and Madrid? Or that this little-known city, which calls itself "Yuwi International Trade City," produces one-quarter of the world's toys and two-thirds of its Christmas decorations?
"There is an Arab district and a Turkish district and and Indian district in Yiwu." Because it's so cosmopolitan, "every disturbance registered a continent away is immediately registered here." Yiwu's merchants knew that President Trump would win when no one in the U.S., including Trump himself, thought he would. That's because "a number of flag manufacturers and sellers in Yiwu and commented that orders coming from the United States for Trump flags far exceeded those for Hillary Clinton."
No book is perfect, and Maçães seems to run out of energy toward the end of this one. In the chapter on Turkey, Maçães makes the startling claim that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Turkey is indeed menaced by a vast and deeply rooted conspiracy engineered by Erdoğan's bête noire, the Pennsylvania-based imam Muhammed Fethullah Gülen. Whether that's true or not I don't know, but Maçães bases his claim on a single source, a journalist whom he met with in Istanbul. That's too Thomas Friedman-esque for my palate. On page 221, Erdoğan's name is misspelled twice as "Ergoğan."
Nevertheless, this is an amazing book, highly recommended.
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7 January 2019 - Published on Amazon.com
The author, a former Portuguese diplomat, political science PhD and think-tank habitué, travels to remote and sometimes dangerous places east of Poland and west of China, parts of the world one doesn't think much about. His travel descriptions and encounters with people are remarkable.
Who knew that there's now a direct train line between the city of Yiwu, China, located near Shanghai on the Pacific coast, and Madrid? Or that this little-known city, which calls itself "Yuwi International Trade City," produces one-quarter of the world's toys and two-thirds of its Christmas decorations?
"There is an Arab district and a Turkish district and and Indian district in Yiwu." Because it's so cosmopolitan, "every disturbance registered a continent away is immediately registered here." Yiwu's merchants knew that President Trump would win when no one in the U.S., including Trump himself, thought he would. That's because "a number of flag manufacturers and sellers in Yiwu and commented that orders coming from the United States for Trump flags far exceeded those for Hillary Clinton."
No book is perfect, and Maçães seems to run out of energy toward the end of this one. In the chapter on Turkey, Maçães makes the startling claim that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Turkey is indeed menaced by a vast and deeply rooted conspiracy engineered by Erdoğan's bête noire, the Pennsylvania-based imam Muhammed Fethullah Gülen. Whether that's true or not I don't know, but Maçães bases his claim on a single source, a journalist whom he met with in Istanbul. That's too Thomas Friedman-esque for my palate. On page 221, Erdoğan's name is misspelled twice as "Ergoğan."
Nevertheless, this is an amazing book, highly recommended.
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