• ISBN13: 9788126925445
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: June 15, 2017
• Pages: 454
• Original Price: INR 1295.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 570 grams

The book is based on predictive geopolitics and focuses on the territorial supremacy of nations and superpowers—both onshore and offshore. It attempts to help the reader develop a world geopolitical view to interpret events and trends.
From a realist geopolitical world view focusing on the Eurasian World Island and its surrounding maritime highway trade routes and chokepoints, the authors accept the lessons of macro-history to dramatically forecast that the present fragmenting world is moving towards a mix of continent-wide civilizational superpowers. In this dramatic shift in the world’s distribution of political and commercial power, and therefore military might, they foresee the implosion of the United States, as the world moves into a post-Anglo Saxon and post-globalization era.
The book suggests that there will be two main continent-wide civilizational superpowers and two political blocs of nations: a German-led Catholic Europe, an Asian conglomerate mainly centered around China and Russia, and a largely pan-Arab Islamist bloc under Iran.
In this unfolding scenario, economic and political trends could be both complicated and intensified by a world oil shortage; dwindling supplies against rising demand, resulting in price hikes, will threaten economic development, further fanning the fires for acute clash between the newly formed superpowers and blocs.
We could be on the verge of what many historians would call an axial period in the history of civilization—a period in which the world will be changed greatly as it exits this era. What makes this most dramatic now is that this time, in such a conflicted state of world affairs, mankind possesses an abundance of mass-destruction weapons.
Civilization clash is not new, but this time the authors argue it will be a quantum leap different because of the numbers of peoples, and the economic, political and military power held in each civilizational superpower and bloc. The authors look towards the elusive mystery in the closing pages of the book. They argue for a change in the heart and mind of mankind to one of benevolence, sharing and charity to replace competition, conflict and strife.
The book is a must read, and gives the reader a conceptual geopolitical superstructure to make sense of world events. If the authors are right, we should all be prepared for the dramatic years ahead confronting us all with the ultimate challenges of worldwide peace and prosperity hosted by a changed mind in mankind from one of conflict to that of cooperation under the guidance of world government.

James Leigh, PhD, has international experience and a lifelong interest in geopolitics and civilization clash, and more recently a fascination with crude oil geopolitics. All this culminates in this present book. He is an Assistant Professor of Cultural and Political Geography at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, and also teaches for Global Semesters, New York, in Cyprus. He has published and worked in five continents and is a Chartered Geographer (CGeog) and life Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS). See his personal webpage for information and resources: www.freewebs.com/jas4
Predrag Vukovic, MA, has established interests in Realist Geopolitics and International Relations in post-Anglo Saxon civilization clash and oil geopolitics. He is research assistant with James Leigh. He has co-authored journal papers and the previous book Beyond Oil Bust (Atlantic Publishers) with James Leigh. Predrag completed a BA in International Relations from the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, and then studied geopolitics in an MA at Kings College, University of London. He has also published papers on Balkan’s issues with the Cyprus Center for European and International Affairs.