After America (the End Of The Old Order And The Rise Of The Middle Powers)

By (author) Niblett, Robin
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By the former Director of Chatham House and acclaimed author of The New Cold War, a bold and original vision for how middle powers can build a post-America order.
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By the former Director of Chatham House and acclaimed author of The New Cold War, a bold and original vision for how middle powers can build a post-America order.

''A thoughtful and lucid analysis of our changing world'' MARTIN WOLF
''The operating manual that all middle power leaders need'' ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER
''One of the UK''s leading strategic thinkers'' PETER FRANKOPAN

When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, he ended the Pax Americana which had underwritten eighty years of global stability and opportunity. Following military interventions in Iran and Venezuela, and with Greenland and Cuba still in its cross-hairs, the United States seems to be returning the world to an older age, in which the great powers discard notions of international law and engage in raw competition for regional and global supremacy. With America''s unparalleled military capabilities, China''s dominance of critical supply chains and Russia''s massive reserves of natural resources, this seems the likeliest outcome. That is, unless the world''s middle powers - countries such as Australia, Brazil, Britain, France, India, Japan or Ukraine - seize the moment and reject subservience to the big powers.

In this perceptive and forward-looking analysis, leading strategist Robin Niblett shows how middle powers can navigate today''s global turmoil to create a more inclusive world order. By investing in their own economic and national security, strengthening regional cooperation and working in ''coalitions of the willing'' with each other and smaller states, middle powers can wield a stronger influence in the world, one that spans hemispheres and continents. In the process, they might offer much-needed hope for a world after America - and finally lay some of the twentieth century''s ghosts to rest.

Table of contents:
Introduction: The Ghosts at Trump''s Feast Part One: End of the Old Order 1: It Couldn''t Go On 2: Controlling the Commanding Heights 3: Making Might Right 4: No Guardrails 5: The Growing Gap Between Ambition and Power Part Two: Rise of the Middle Powers 6: The Middle Takes Shape 7: Playing Their Hand 8: Coming to the Table 9: Keeping Order 10: The Dangers Within 11: How to Avoid Going Back to the Future Epilogue: The Year of the Snake (Fire)
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''After America is the operating manual that all middle power leaders need. Concise and timely, it is packed with facts, insights, and prescriptions. Best of all, it tackles the hardest questions, such as defining who the middle powers actually are or could be. Highly recommended''
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''A thoughtful and lucid analysis of our changing world''
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''After America is a book equal to this geopolitical moment ... Bold in its diagnosis and global in its reach, Robin Niblett offers us a genuinely new frame for a debate just beginning to unfold''
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''This is an age of tectonic shift in world order: Niblett rigorously pushes us to ask the key questions, including who will lead the international system?''
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''A brilliant read illuminating in a uniquely digestible narrative the complex factors that have led to the current geopolitical moment''
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''Policymakers in middle powers should read this book to recognise the important role they must play''
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''An illuminating book for the interested citizen as well as for those making policy''
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