On Tuesday 1 April 2008, Bill Emmott will launch his new book entitled Rivals: how the power struggle between China, India and Japan will shape our next decade from 6pm.
Bill Emmott is one of the world's most authoritative international commentators. Fifteen years after The Sun Also Sets predicted the decline of Japan in the 1990s, Emmott returns not only to the Far East but to the wholly new and different challenges which have arisen from and among China, India and Japan. Rivals will be the book which defines the geopolitics of the world's most rapidly evolving economies and nation states, and assesses the challenge to America's global economic and military leadership posed by the emerging Asian superpowers.
It is not just, as many seem to argue, a question of the rise of China. For the first time in history Asia will not be dominated by just one country or by outside powers. It will contain three large, economically powerful countries, all with interests and ambitions that range across the whole region, and the world. The future of the world economy will be determined by the competition between these three countries, as will world politics.
Rivals: How the power struggle between China, India and Japan will shape our next decade, will explore the legacies of history, the likely future trajectories of China, Japan and India, and the potential collisions and intersections between them which will shape the 21st century.
Bill Emmott is an independent writer, speaker and consultant. He spent 26 years at The Economist, which he joined in 1980, working as a correspondent and editor in Brussels, Tokyo and London, on subjects ranging from politics to finance, economics and business. In 1993 he was appointed Editor in Chief, a post he held for 13 years before stepping down in March 2006.
He has written eight books, including 20:21 Vision—20th century lessons for the 21st century (2003) and six on Japan, including The Sun Also Sets (1989) and, in Japanese translation only, The Sun Also Rises (2006) and Japan’s Choices, a conversation with Peter Tasker (2007).
Bill writes columns for the Asahi Shimbun and for Ushio magazine in Japan, Exame magazine in Brazil and Business World in India, as well as regular commentaries for the Corriere della Sera in Italy. He is a member of the European Executive Committee of the Trilateral Commission and is a Member of the IISS.
Wine and refreshments will be provided
The meeting will be Chaired by Alexander Nicoll (IISS Director of Editorial) and will be held on the Fifth Floor, Arundel House, 13-15 Arundel Street, Temple Place, London WC2R 3DX.
If you would like to attend, please RSVP Kathleen James on james@iiss.org or tel. 020 7395 9109
