This book attempts at understanding global economic change and the future of the global society. After analyzing the financial crisis starting in the USA in 2007 and moving to the European Union, and taking into consideration the current economic globalization without global democratic governance, it proposes the reorganization of the United Nations on a democratic basis which will progressively induce the disappearance of hegemonic powers, and the reorganization of the European Union by the creation of a selective Federation by eight to ten current members.
Tracing the evolution of politics and the economies of the world from 1945 to 2010, it describes in detail the decline in the West as the consequences of the industrial shift towards Asia, the global problems to be solved, and the economic changes and the political scenario of the world in 2040s.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jose Miguel Andreu
Jose Miguel Andreu is Professor of Economics at the University of Sevilla, Spain. He has also taught Economics in the Basque Country University, in the University of Alcala de Henares, and in the Open University of Spain (UNED). For 30 years he has been delivering lectures on Introduction to Economics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Superior Macro-economics, Theory of Economic Growth, Money and Banking etc. He has published several textbooks for students, reports, and more than a hundred articles on Spanish and international economic matters. For two years (1981-1982) he was economic advisor to the Prime Minister of Spain. Recently (2000-2003) he served as a Spanish diplomat to India. Professor Andreu is currently working as an advisor to the African Development Bank in Tunis.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rita Dulci Rahman
Rita Dulci Rahman has 30 years of experience in international relations in different fields, among others in trade and investment, migration, conflict resolution, and development co-operation. She has been committee member or chair in several European and Dutch governmental and non-governmental bodies such as EECOD, CCME, ECLOF and Fondad. Born in the Dutch Antilles, she currently works as a diplomat for the Netherlands Government, and has been posted in Bangladesh, India and Tunisia. She obtained her Masters degree in Development Studies at the University of Leiden, Netherlands, and her Bachelors in Mathematics, University of Surinam. For three years (1988-1991) she taught at the University of Leiden. She has published more than 30 articles on international relations.
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