Book launch: The Cunning of Globalization. US Supremacy under the Siege

Professor Dr. Paul Dobrescu, Director of the Center for Research in Communication has launched the book - The Cunning of Globalization. US Supremacy under the Siege, on Thursday, 7 Octomber 2010, at Casa Titulescu. Within the event, there were guest speakers such as Constantin Vlad, Florea Dumitrescu, Ilie Şerbănescu and George G. Potra.
Professors of the Faculty of Communication and Public Relations, NSPAS, doctoral students at PhD School of Communication Studies, specialists and students interested in the topic of globalization took part in the book launch.
The volume comprises themes as:
- Who released and who picked the benefits of globalization
- U.S.A have not given themselves and to the world a new cause
- Obama’s "wars" - more complicated than Roosevelt’s
- "The Communist Party, the most powerful emperor of China;
- Chinese corporations - real amphibians equipped to conquer the world;
- Earth Overheating; Demography defeats geography.

Professor Paul Dobrescu emphasizes in his book the specific of globalization and its interference in development and ratio of powers, especially as an effect of changes in financial crisis. It also underlines the importance of globalization in determining the economic development framework that led to the rise of China and Asian giants, detrimental to American super power. Errors of capitalism are also presented, especially those of U.S., as well as the strategies for the new model of society, the implications of energy resources and of demographic changes in the midst of transformations generated by globalization.

Intro: „The historical merit of U.S. is that they ‘open the planet’ and committed it to development. Processes triggered by globalization have far exceeded what American leadership predicted or could foresee. When having the planet developing by somehow uniform rules, one needs players who can play at this level. A country like Belgium, however advanced, cannot face competition. Thus, large countries came ahead, continent-countries, giants, which will occupy the forefront of political life for a long time. Since Asia has the most giants – here should be included ‘the world's energy superpower’, Russia, Eurasian country par excellence –, the moving of geopolitical center eastwards becomes inevitable. U.S have been reconfigured as one of the giants who occupies the world political scene. America’s consolation is that globalization has opened the lock and inaugurated, with or without will, a long cycle of historical evolution within which we do not know if U.S will continue to remain a super-power.”

The book The Cunning of Globalization. US Supremacy under the Siege, published by the European Institute, can be also purchased at the bookstore of the College of Communication and Public Relations.