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Analyzing the US, China, and the EU as an informal "global triangle" that lacks institutionalization, this excellent book makes an important contribution to the growing literature on international order and global governance in the 21st century. The volume covers a wide range of secondary sources as contributors examine the developing relationship between China, the EU, and the US in relation to foreign policy and security, economics and trade, and climate change. They demonstrate that the trilateral relationship varies according to each issue, for instance when, after the US withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Paris Agreement, China and the EU found common ground on both issues. Asserting that the changing nature of this relationship is caused by the rise of China, the editors conclude that the transition to a new global order will be difficult as it is unclear whether the US and the EU will cleave together against the "China threat," or whether the EU and China will work together to sustain a "post-American" global order. This book makes an important contribution to the attempt to determine that future, showing that China-US-EU trilateral relations play a central role in addressing the challenges of 21st-century global governance. A useful addition to Charles Kupchan's No One's World (2012).Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.