Jean-Pierre Lehmann

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MundoAsia,

In 1956, Chuck Berry, the rock star, first sang his smash hit: “Roll Over Beethoven.” The second verse goes as follows:

You know, my temperature’s risin’

The jukebox’s blowin’ a fuse.

My heart’s beatin’ rhythm

And my soul keeps a-singin’ the blues.

Roll over Beethoven

And tell Tchaikovsky the news.

The 1950s were the first decade after World War II had ended. The onset of the iconoclastic rock-and-roll music brought a music-cultural revolution against the schmaltzy melodies of earlier decades. (My sister and I were forbidden to play Elvis Presley records!)

Ten years after Chuck Berry first recorded “Roll Over Beethoven,” in 1966, another cultural revolution broke out, this time in the People’s Republic of China.…  Seguir leyendo »

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In the IHT Global Agenda magazine (June 24), three experts on geopolitics — Joseph Nye, Dambisa Moyo and Kishore Mahbubani — debated whether global power was shifting away from the United States, and indeed what defined power in the 21st century. Jean-Pierre Lehmann, professor of international political economy at IMD, a global business school in Switzerland, and founding director of The Evian Group, joins the debate.

The shift of power from West to East has become a common theme, especially since the onset of the 2008 financial crisis. We need some perspective.

It is an incontrovertible fact that over the last couple of decades parts of Asia have experienced high growth and considerable economic and social transformations, including significant reductions in poverty, increasing competitiveness, the rise of a middle class and massive urbanization.…  Seguir leyendo »