The Long Twentieth Century Quotes

“While the US was bogged down in Iraq, China continued to grow at a rapid pace, acquiring financial reserves and friends throughout the world as quickly as the United States was losing them.”
― Giovanni Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century

“before humanity chokes (or basks) in the dungeon
(or paradise) of a Western-centered global empire or of an East Asian-centered world-market society, “it might well burn up in the horrors (or glories) of the escalating violence that has accompanied the liquidation of the Cold War world order.”
― Giovanni Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century