Predictions of the West’s decline and the rise of Asia have been a recurrent theme in academia, policy studies, and journalism since the emergence of Japan as an economic power in the 1970s.[1] According to these thinkers, the shift in global power from Europe and the United States to the countries of the Indo-Pacific region will dominate world economics, politics, security, and culture. From India to Japan, over four billion people live in Asia, with the region now exporting 40 percent of the global goods.
Eric Voegelin and Asia
Eric Voegelin and Asia
Eric Voegelin and Asia
Predictions of the West’s decline and the rise of Asia have been a recurrent theme in academia, policy studies, and journalism since the emergence of Japan as an economic power in the 1970s.[1] According to these thinkers, the shift in global power from Europe and the United States to the countries of the Indo-Pacific region will dominate world economics, politics, security, and culture. From India to Japan, over four billion people live in Asia, with the region now exporting 40 percent of the global goods.