The authors hardly have even a sniff of civilizational issues, and then they pooh pooh them, at the end of the book.
Civilizational issues biting them on the butt, throughout their account really, and they don't even feel the bites.
They call it North and South, developed and undeveloped.
That's as far as they go really.
it's an economist's ideological agenda, crossing civilizational lines, to human welfare in general.
They say things like 'China and India are returning to their natural great power weight'.
Neither China nor India ever had a great power weight for very long. They each had large sedentary fragmented populations.
That made them potential victims, not great powers.
For much of the time, each of them was dominated by neighboring or remote civilizations, the Mongols or Manchus, Europeans or Japan, for China, and the Muslims, or British, for India. Most of the time they merely wallowed disjointedly, and played defense against invasion or encroachment.
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