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"The main premise of the book is that the United States of America may be considered the dominant pole in the new world order, and that the world will continue to exist in an American age that is expected to extend for at least a further five decades. The qualitative supremacy of the United States of America has proven inescapable according to the data, statistics and information presented in this book, as well as the scales and variables of comparison adopted by the author in terms of economics, military advancement, energy resources, transportation, education, culture, and technological progress. According to these standards, the structure of the new world order may be described as a hierarchy, with the United States of America alone at the top, followed by a second tier comprising Russia, China and the European Union, a third tier consisting of Japan, India and Brazil, followed by the rest of world. The introduction to this book may be considered a basic foundation for the analysis presented in the following seven chapters, which examine the emergence, current status, and future of the new world order in its various dimensions."--

"The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR) hosted a symposium entitled France and the Arabian Gulf, in Abu Dhabi on June 3-4, 2006, where visiting experts were invited to share their views on a variety of issues of mutual concern to France and the Arab Gulf states. This volume comprises a selection of the papers presented at the symposium, covering: French foreign policy regarding the GCC; the role of France in the management of various Middle East conflicts; French security policy in the Arabian Gulf; French perspectives on current EU-GCC relations; and the history and ongoing development of cultural relations between France and the Arab Gulf states."--Jacket