The Rise Of The Virtual State

Wealth and Power in the Coming Century

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By Richard N Rosecrance

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What will power look like in the century to come? “Imperial Great Britain may have been the model for the nineteenth century,” Richard Rosecrance writes, “but Hong Kong will be the model for the twenty-first.” We are entering the Age of the Virtual State – when land and its products are no longer the primary source of power, when managing flows is more important than maintaining stockpiles, when service industries are the greatest source of wealth and expertise and creativity are the greatest natural resources. Rosecrance’s brilliant new book combines international relations theory with economics and the business model of the virtual corporation to describe how virtual states arise and operate, and how traditional powers will relate to them. In specific detail, he shows why Japan’s kereitsu system, which brought it industrial dominance, is doomed; why Hong Kong and Taiwan will influence China more than vice-versa; and why the European Union will command the most international prestige even though the U.S. may produce more wealth.
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Aug 4, 2000
Page Count
288 pages
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-13
9780465071425

Richard N Rosecrance

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Richard Rosecrance is Adjunct Professor in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, Research Professor of Political Science at the University of California, and Senior Fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. The author of The Rise of the Virtual State, he lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Gu Guoliang is Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. From 1990 to 1995, he worked as Counselor of the Chinese Delegation to the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. He established the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation Studies in 1998 and has acted as the Director of the Center since. He is also the Council Member of the Chinese Association of Arms Control and Disarmament.

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