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Global Challenges and the Emerging World Order

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Giulio Sapelli

    1. University of Milan and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milan, Italy

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  • Explains the origins and implications of the Arab Spring

  • Analyzes the global economic crisis and its impact on the geostrategic order

  • Examines the potential effects of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Trans-Pacific Partnership

  • Highlights the potential of Africa to drive the world’s economic future

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. The Terrible August of 2013

    • Giulio Sapelli
    Pages 1-17

  3. Start of the Mediterranean Crisis

    • Giulio Sapelli
    Pages 19-20

  4. World Economic Crisis

    • Giulio Sapelli
    Pages 21-22

  5. The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost

    • Giulio Sapelli
    Pages 23-36

  6. The Old and the New Convergence

    • Giulio Sapelli
    Pages 37-42

  7. Responding to Strategic Divergences

    • Giulio Sapelli
    Pages 43-50

  8. The Challenge to Fossil Fuels and the Crushing of Convergent Growth

    • Giulio Sapelli
    Pages 51-55

  9. The Future Will Be African

    • Giulio Sapelli
    Pages 57-67

  10. Emerge from the Crisis in Europe: Change Europe

    • Giulio Sapelli
    Pages 69-79
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About this book

This book offers a fascinating overview of the challenges posed by the world’s new geostrategic order and likely future directions. It opens with an unconventional view of the Arab Spring, identifying its origins in the relative US withdrawal from the Middle East caused by both the need for military disengagement for economic reasons and the discovery of shale gas and tight oil in the heart of the North American continent. The rise in the geostrategic importance of Putin’s Russia is explored in this context. The implications of the worldwide economic crisis are analyzed in depth: the author’s interpretation is that the world is entering a phase of unstable growth generated by hyper financialization and deflation. Against this background, the book explores the US attempt to trigger growth through the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, the impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (based on the US-Australia military alliance) in restraining China’s advance, and the potential for Africa to become the driver of the world’s economic future if it can resist Chinese penetration and continue the nation-building process.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Milan and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milan, Italy

    Giulio Sapelli

About the author

Giulio Sapelli is Full Professor of Economic History at the University of Milan. He has previously taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, the University of Buenos Aires, the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Prof. Sapelli has published very extensively on a wide range of topics, including the energy industry and management, market pathologies and the need for institutional, organisational and ethical transparency, territorial socioeconomic systems and anthropology and economics. He was one of the founders of the journal Industrial and Corporate Change (Oxford University Press) and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee for Modern Italy and the International Academic Board of the Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans. Prof. Sapelli has been a member of the Boards of eni and Unicredit Group as independent director and President of M.E.T.A. s.pa.

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