历史就是一种客观世界运动发展的过程。看透这个世界，你需要有一种历史惯性的思维。
这是一部预测10年内国际格局发展趋势的作品。未来十年，中国能否成为超级大国？东亚能否取代欧洲成为世界中心？欧盟、俄罗斯、日本将风采尽失？“金砖国家”将成为历史？ 中国应放弃不结盟政策吗？中国应采取何种外交方式？中国的周边国家，孰敌、孰友？中国该以何种思想引领世界？
本书深刻对比、剖析了中美未来十年的实力变化，提出了2023年世界将出现中美两个超级大国，两极格局也随即形成的大胆预测，同时还将世界主要大国未来十年的发展走势进行深入阐述，探讨了两极格局形成的必然性。作者还结合国内情势以及中国政策的发展方向，提出了独到的观点以及切实可行的政策建议。

The rise of China could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will China look like in the future? What should it look like? And what will China's rise mean for the rest of world? This book, written by China's most influential foreign policy thinker, sets out a vision for the coming decades from China's point of view.
In the West, Yan Xuetong is often regarded as a hawkish policy advisor and enemy of liberal internationalists. But a very different picture emerges from this book, as Yan examines the lessons of ancient Chinese political thought for the future of China and the development of a "Beijing consensus" in international relations. Yan, it becomes clear, is neither a communist who believes that economic might is the key to national power, nor a neoconservative who believes that China should rely on military might to get its way. Rather, Yan argues, political leadership is the key to national power, and morality is an essential part of political leadership. Economic and military might are important components of national power, but they are secondary to political leaders who act in accordance with moral norms, and the same holds true in determining the hierarchy of the global order.
Providing new insights into the thinking of one of China's leading foreign policy figures, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in China's rise or in international relations.

《世界权力的转移：政治领导与战略竞争》：
（1）理论创新，借鉴了中国古代的政治思想，特别是有关道义取向与领导类型之间关系的认识，因此被国际学界称为道义现实主义。
（2）对中国的崛起战略提出建议，建议中国选择王道的崛起战略。