New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
The author develops a theory that explains why rising powers sometimes help declining hegemons, as they are useful partners when trying to contain other powers.
One important part of the literature on emerging powers looks at international power transition in history, and how the arrival of new great powers changes global dynamics.
Another example of early predictions of a broader shift of power toward large non-Western powers located on the periphery of the world economy.
Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750.