Preface / Liz Mohn, Wolfgang Schüssel -- Introduction / Malte C. Boecker -- I. Asia's potential as a world power. Demographic dynamics of Asia / Carl Haub -- Asia's economic and technological outlook / Horst Siebert -- Asia, Europe and the global power balance / Paul Kennedy -- II. Asia's...

Contents: Part I A modern take on structural reforms -- 1. Past and future reform challenges for CESEE and Europe at large / Ewald Nowotny, Doris Ritzberger-Grünwald and Helene Schuberth -- 2. Revisiting transition reform / Sergei Guriev -- 3. Europe's moments of truth - wicked crises, good and...

"Europe is confronted by an intimidating triple challenge--economic stagnation, climate change, and a governance crisis. This book demonstrates how these three challenges are closely inter-related. A return to economic growth cannot come at the expense of greater risk of irreversible climate...