The New Cold War

<b>SIR ROBIN NIBLETT </b>is a leading expert on international relations. He is a distinguished fellow at Chatham House after spending 15 years as its Director and Chief Executive until 2022 a senior adviser with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC and a senior fellow with the Asia Society Policy Institute. He is also a senior adviser at Hakluyt the global strategic advisory firm and regularly advises businesses and other organisations on the implications of today's changing geopolitics. <b>'An illuminating book for the interested citizen as well as for those making policy' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON</b><br><b>'An important crystal-clear account of contemporary global geopolitics... Essential reading' PETER FRANKOPAN</b><br><b>'An excellent short guide: concise informed and full of insight' SIR LAWRENCE FREEDMAN</b><br><br>We have entered a new Cold War. The contest between America and China is global and unbridgeable and it encompasses all major instruments of statecraft - economic political and military. It has its tinder box: Taiwan. And both protagonists are working hard to draw allies to their side from across the world.<br><br>We stand at its beginning. But this Cold War is nothing like the conflict between the Soviet Union and the West which defined the second half of the twentieth century. We need new ideas to navigate its risks and avoid a globally devastating hot war. In this urgent and necessary book Robin Niblett argues that only by looking back can we learn the lessons to guide us through this new reality: he goes through the ten ways in which the New Cold War is different and offers five rules for navigating its onset.<br><br>How we manage this contest will determine not only whether there is still space for international cooperation to deal with our many global challenges from the climate emergency to the technological revolution but also who will lead the twenty-first century and quite simply the course of all our futures. An urgent and essential assessment of the global contest between the US and China and how looking to history will help us to navigate it from former Director of Chatham House There's a <b>pressing need</b> to put the contest between the US and China into its <b>global context</b>. Robin Niblett does precisely that. <b>An illuminating book</b>... An important crystal-clear account of contemporary global geopolitics - by one of the UK's leading strategic thinkers. Essential reading For those seeking to get their heads round the biggest geopolitical challenges of our time <b>this is an excellent short guide: concise informed and full of insight</b> <b>Robin Niblett succinctly explains the drivers of today's global instability and offers hope that democratic countries can regain their sense of shared purpose.</b> In this timely book Robin Niblett u<b>nveils the changing balance of power between the US and China and how it is re-defining international relations.</b> <b>Its clarity and simplicity make it essential reading.</b> An <b>insightful sobering and essential analysis</b> of a shifting geo-political landscape... fresh thinking on how we might manage the US-China confrontation. <b>Combines shrewd and detailed geopolitical analysis with a sobering but ultimately positive assessment of how the liberal world can get back on the front foot. Compelling reading.</b> <b>Robin Niblett is one of the UK's finest foreign policy minds</b>... As he rightly argues war between the US and China is entirely avoidable. There's a <b>pressing need</b> to put the contest between the US and China into its <b>global context</b>. Robin Niblett does precisely that. <b>An illuminating book</b>... An important crystal-clear account of contemporary global geopolitics - by one of the UK's leading strategic thinkers. Essential reading For those seeking to get their heads round the biggest geopolitical challenges of our time <b>this is an excellent short guide: concise informed and full of insight</b> <b>Robin Niblett succinctly explains the drivers of today's global instability and offers hope that democratic countries can regain their sense of shared purpose.</b> In this timely book Robin Niblett u<b>nveils the changing balance of power between the US and China and how it is re-defining international relations.</b> <b>Its clarity and simplicity make it essential reading.</b> An <b>insightful sobering and essential analysis</b> of a shifting geo-political landscape... fresh thinking on how we might manage the US-China confrontation. <b>Combines shrewd and detailed geopolitical analysis with a sobering but ultimately positive assessment of how the liberal world can get back on the front foot. Compelling reading.</b> <b>Robin Niblett is one of the UK's finest foreign policy minds</b>... As he rightly argues war between the US and China is entirely avoidable.