Book review—The survival of the most responsive: Asian business developments and their global impact
✍ Scribed by Gillian Rice
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 70 KB
- Volume
- 30
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1932-2054
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✦ Synopsis
The awarding of the 2022 soccer World Cup to Qatar took many by surprise, especially the United States and England, who quickly revealed themselves to be sore losers. In a National Public Radio commentary, Parag Khanna and Karim Makdisi attribute Qatar's win to international soccer organization FIFA's nebulous criteria, "legacy" effects: the long-term benefits of raising soccer's profile in less significant parts of the world and making the international sporting community as truly global as possible. Geoffrey Kemp's The East Moves West examines the future of Middle Eastern countries like Qatar, which is at once a Middle Eastern nation and part of West Asia.
In the 1990s, there existed a "unipolar moment" when the United States was the world's sole superpower; this moment has passed, and new patterns of international relations are evolving, not only in sport, but in trade, investment, cultural exchange, and politics. Kemp's analysis focuses on the meanings and impacts of closer integration between Asia and the Middle East.