No One's World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn

Charles Kupchan, professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University, predicts the 21st century will not belong to America, China, Asia, or anyone else.

Most strategists recognize the dominance of the West is declining, but they're confident its founding ideas (democracy, capitalism, secular nationalism) will continue to spread.

Kupchan argues the world is headed for political and ideological diversity and believes the ascent of the West was due to Western socioeconomic conditions. Rising regions are following their own paths to domestic and international order, and the world will be interdependent, but without a center of gravity or global guardian.

Kupchan is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and served on the National Security Council during the Clinton presidency. He is the author of How Enemies Become Friends and The End of the American Era.