ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in this book. The book offers ideas as to how to achieve a "floating balance" and harmony among the ever-changing conditions of our domestic and international life and how the Europeans and East Asian thinkers could inspire US to take a certain path for the smooth transition to a new global order. After 200 years of colonization and Euro-American hegemony, along with the failed adaptation or rejection of Western modernity, the great civilizations of the world now have to learn to live with one another in the twenty-first century. In this world, a new order will not be based on the modernist ideas and institutions such as nation states, markets, individualism, science and technology, and progress. These ideas and institutions will be challenged by newly empowered ideas and institutions such as global enterprises and transitional organizations, the rise of sharing and donation, communitarianism, spirituality, and environmentalism.
