Has the West lost it? : a provocation / Kishore Mahbubani.
By: Mahbubani, Kishore [author.]
Publisher: London : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2018Description: 105 pages : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780241312865Subject(s): World politics -- 21st century | Civilization, Western | United States -- Foreign economic relations | United States -- Foreign relations | Europe -- Foreign relations | European Union countries -- Foreign economic relationsDDC classification: 909.8312 Summary: "The West's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns. How will the West react to its new status of superpower in decline?
In Kishore Mahbubani's timely polemic, he argues passionately that the West can no longer presume to impose its ideology on the world, and crucially, that it must stop seeking to intervene, politically and militarily, in the affairs of other nations. He examines the West's greatest follies of recent times: the humiliation of Russia at the end of the Cold War, which led to the rise of Putin, and the invasion of Iraq after 9/11, which destabilised the Middle East. Yet, he argues, essential to future world peace are the Western constructs of democracy and reason, which it must continue to promote, by diplomacy rather than force, via multilateral institutions of global governance such as the UN. Only by recognising its changing status, and seeking to influence rather than dominate, he warns, can the West continue to play a key geopolitical role." -- Penguin Books site. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/306/306226/has-the-west-lost-it-/9780141986531.html
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 909.8312 MAH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 014998 |
"The West's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns. How will the West react to its new status of superpower in decline?
In Kishore Mahbubani's timely polemic, he argues passionately that the West can no longer presume to impose its ideology on the world, and crucially, that it must stop seeking to intervene, politically and militarily, in the affairs of other nations. He examines the West's greatest follies of recent times: the humiliation of Russia at the end of the Cold War, which led to the rise of Putin, and the invasion of Iraq after 9/11, which destabilised the Middle East. Yet, he argues, essential to future world peace are the Western constructs of democracy and reason, which it must continue to promote, by diplomacy rather than force, via multilateral institutions of global governance such as the UN. Only by recognising its changing status, and seeking to influence rather than dominate, he warns, can the West continue to play a key geopolitical role." -- Penguin Books site.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/306/306226/has-the-west-lost-it-/9780141986531.html