Inertia of History (Hindi Edition) - Hardcover

by Xuetong Yan (Author)

This book predicts possible international changes that may occur between 2013 and 2023. It forecasts that China will become a global superpower no later than 2023, and that a bipolar world will be formed with a strategic rivalry between China and the US. China may also further reduce the disparity in capability with the US, while other major powers will witness an enlarged capability gap with both China and the US. Therefore, this bipolarization will drive the world center to shift from Europe to East Asia.

Author Biography

Yan Xuetong is Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University, China. In 2008, he was named as one of world's top 100 public intellectuals by the American journal Foreign Policy. He has been the only political scientist listed among the "Most Cited Chinese Researchers" by Elsevier since 2014.