I ntroduction The Rise of Asia and the Polarisation of Global Forces Western Galaxy and Bandung Constellation A Sketch of Ideas for a Global Future Darwis Khudori That Asia has risen in the world economy since at least 1960 and especially since 2000 is a proposition that is widely accepted Immanuel Wallerstein The Rise of Asia in the World Economy GIS Rseau Asie French Network for Asian Studies September 2012 For Kishore Mahbubani The rise of the West transformed the world The rise of Asia will bring about an equally significant transformation The rise of Asia will be good for the world Kishore Mahbubani The Asian Hemisphere The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East USA Public Affairs 2008 However Rehman Sobhan warned This transformation in the world economic order will not be painless either for the East or for the West Indeed the transition has the potential for causing much grief to the world as no established order is likely to cede its hegemony without challenge The significant point of departure during this phase of transition lies in the fact that the receding economic power of the West also more broadly classified as the North dominated by the United States US remains and is likely to remain in the immediate future the dominant military power This erosion of the economic power of the West while retaining military dominance with the US and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO allies does not bode well for an easy transition for the global order How far the hitherto dominant 1I ntroduction The Rise of Asia and the Polarisation of Global Forces Western Galaxy and Bandung Constellation A Sketch of Ideas for a Global Future Darwis Khudori That Asia has risen in the world economy since at least 1960 and especially since 2000 is a proposition that is widely accepted Immanuel ...Wallerstein The Rise of Asia in the World Economy GIS Rseau Asie French Network for Asian Studies September 2012 For Kishore Mahbubani The rise of the West transformed the world The rise of Asia will bring about an equally significant transformation The rise of Asia will be good for the world Kishore Mahbubani The Asian Hemisphere The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East USA Public Affairs 2008 However Rehman Sobhan warned This transformation in the world economic order will not be painless either for the East or for the West Indeed the transition has the potential for causing much grief to the world as no established order is likely to cede its hegemony without challenge The significant point of departure during this phase of transition lies in the fact that the receding economic power of the West also more broadly classified as the North dominated by the United States US remains and is likely to remain in the immediate future the dominant military power This erosion of the economic power of the West while retaining military dominance with the US and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO allies does not bode well for an easy transition for the global order How far the hitherto dominant 1