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Raj Verma, China, India and the future of the international society. Edited by Jamie Gaskarth, International Affairs, Volume 92, Issue 6, November 2016, Pages 1552–1553, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.12780
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China, India and the future of the international society. Edited by Jamie Gaskarth. London: Rowman & Littlefield. 2015. 184pp. Index. £80.00. ISBN 978 1 78348 259 7. Available as e-book.
China, and to a lesser extent India, have grown at phenomenal rates in the last three decades. The possibility that China is going to surpass the United States in economic terms in the next decade dominates the headlines. Some scholars contend that China's and India's rise is signalling a shift in power from the West to the East. While most writers of this genre emphasize the realist paradigms of hard power (understood as economic, political and military power), some scholars rely on soft power and normative power narratives to conclude that the twenty-first century will be an Asian century. The edited volume by Jamie Gaskarth critically analyses this assertion. The contributors argue that although China's and India's hard power, and especially their economic potential, will increase in the future (although this is debatable with respect to China), they will not be able to surpass the US and the twenty-first century will not be an ‘Asian century’.
