Preface / Liz Mohn, Wolfgang Schüssel -- Introduction / Malte C. Boecker -- I. Asia's potential as a world power. Demographic dynamics of Asia / Carl Haub -- Asia's economic and technological outlook / Horst Siebert -- Asia, Europe and the global power balance / Paul Kennedy -- II. Asia's...

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