Easternization

Asia's growing wealth, Gideon Rachman contends, is reshaping the global balance of power, and that shift, which he calls Easternization, is the defining trend of the era. China, rising but troubled, now challenges American supremacy, while the ambitions of Japan, India, Pakistan and North Korea could unsettle the wider world. Rachman sets this against a West weighed down by economic malaise and populist politics, an Arab world in turmoil and a Russia eager to regain great-power status. As Western influence recedes, he maps how this turbulent change is likely to shape international politics in the twenty-first century, including the great questions of war and peace.

It appears on a published list of books McKinsey chief executive Dominic Barton was reading over the summer, chosen as he focused on technology and major changes in the global economy.