If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. 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." The World Beyond the Headlines is a project of the Center for International Studies, which brings scholars, journalists, and world leaders to the University to discuss issues of current global importance. For more information on this event, visit cis.uchicago.edu/events/2011-2012/120312-charles-kupchan-rising-west-and-coming-global-turn Information on the entire The World Beyond the Headlines series can be found at cis.uchicago.edu/wbh This program was organized by the University of Chicago Center for International Studies and co-sponsored by the Seminary Co-op Bookstore and the International House Global Voices Program. February 29, 2012

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