1. Why the West is in decline - EuroIntelligence
23 jan 2024 · One of the many ailments of the west is a generalised attention-deficit hyper-activity disorder that has swept into politics.
One of the many ailments of the west is a generalised attention-deficit hyper-activity disorder that has swept into politics.
2. Hard Truths of the West - Antiracist History and Theory
This factsheet challenges common-sense ideas of 'the West'. The factsheet explains that it is important to see the power of so-called Western countries as ...
This factsheet challenges common-sense ideas of 'the West'. The factsheet explains that it is important to see the power of so-called Western countries as dependent on the explotation of land, resources and labour.
3. West's savior complex makes it hard to reform itself - Global Times
9 jan 2023 · The savior complex does more harm than good in solving the current political, economic, cultural, and social dilemmas the West is facing. From a ...
For a long time, some Western media and politicians have suffered from a savior complex. They think they are superior and believe that the only right solution to many issues in this world is to take the Western path. How to restrain such a complex is a serious problem the West is facing.
4. The Problem of the West - The Atlantic
The problem of the West is nothing less than the problem of American development. A glance at the map of the United States reveals the truth.
“It has been, and is, preëminently a region of ideals, mistaken or not.”
5. Politicians are right about the 'decline of the west' – but so ... - The Guardian
5 apr 2023 · The problem is not moral decay. It's the withering away of our living standards, security and wellbeing.
The problem is not moral decay. It’s the withering away of our living standards, security and wellbeing, says the Guardian columnist Owen Jones
6. Will the West Fall Like Ancient Rome? - The Globalist
16 feb 2024 · Today, the West is not weak by any means. Although the West has been declining in relative terms, it is still growing in absolute terms. And ...
Are the Chinese the new barbarians, intent on triggering the fall of the West? Or is China risking internal failure?
7. The West Is Not the World | German Marshall Fund of the United States
14 mei 2021 · There is an unseen connection between the social justice debates in Western societies and the fate of the West and the liberal international order.
There is an unseen connection between the social justice debates in Western societies and the fate of the West and the liberal international order. There has been much soul searching in the West about new challenges to global order and democratic decline globally and in the West. Western dominance is waning, and what will follow is unclear. At the same time, within Western countries, old orders and habits are also being challenged. Received histories and heroes are being reconsidered in a reckoning with the racial injustices that have been a central feature of European and US history.
8. Why I don't live in the West: an Essay - Gillian Rhodes
19 mei 2022 · Let's not talk about the wealth gap, how hard it is to get by, how many homeless people there are, how much of the population lives at or close ...
In July this year, I will have spent 10 years in Asia – from Cambodia to South Korea and then to Pakistan, where I currently live. People tell me all the
9. Does the world still need the West? | Opinions - Al Jazeera
12 okt 2020 · There is a real danger that with their democratic credentials rubbished by events at home, it will be more difficult for the West to credibly ...
The sun is setting on the West’s time as the self-appointed democracy police of the world.
10. The West needs to wake up - Engelsberg Ideas
20 dec 2023 · It invites eastern companies to enrich themselves in the West and Western ... This involves hard guarantees of their interests and security, which ...
The West’s hegemonic position faces a growing challenge from an emerging coalition in the East which seeks to revise the international order in its own interests. To preserve its position, the West must take decisive action. Whether it has the will to do so is unclear.
11. The Deconstruction of the West - The American Interest
12 apr 2017 · If anyone doubts the scope and severity of the problem, he or she should ask why it has been so difficult of late to develop a consensus between ...
The greatest threat to the liberal international order comes not from Russia, China, or jihadist terror but from the self-induced deconstruction of Western culture.
12. The West Has Lost Its Dominant Global Position, And It Should ...
1 jun 2018 · ... West Lost It?" by Kishore Mahbubani ... Perhaps the central “tough love” message of this short book is that ...
Has the West lost its dominant position in the world? And what can it do to handle its relative decline with grace? This article explores what can be done, in a review of the new book "Has The West Lost It?" by Kishore Mahbubani.
13. The west has broken its promises to developing countries - The Guardian
15 jun 2023 · But tough though life is in the west, it is a lot tougher in the developing and emerging world. As the World Bank made clear in its update on ...
A summit in Paris this month offers a way to tackle this disastrous failure, but only if western leaders bother to turn up, says the Guardian’s economics editor, Larry Elliott
14. Dismantling the “West” - Current Affairs
28 jun 2018 · The notion of a “cultural inheritance” common to “Western” people—a category that is both strikingly modern and shockingly difficult to define— ...
The whole concept of “Western” civilization is faulty and should be dumped…
15. The West And The Battle Of Ideas - Hoover Institution
While cultural problems are certainly hard to solve, they are not impervious to influence. What is required is a revaluation of values, a concerted ...
Our educational institutions must instill in future generations the legacy of Western values.
16. Western civilisation: what about it? | Brian's comments
12 jan 2020 · This provides a background for difficult questions concerning responsibility and implications. Western? Civilisation? In political and cultural ...
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17. The West needs to take a fresh look at itself and the world. Here's why
22 sep 2023 · Is there a correlation between the idea of the West and the actual West? ... hard power capabilities of the West, rest and China. Also Read | US ...
Amidst talk of ‘Western decline’, ‘retreat of the West’, the ‘resurgence of China’ and so on, a fine but important point is lost: the West — pared to the essence — is an idea. That this idea took hold in certain geographies is a paradox: it may be both self-explanatory and a mystery at the same time. Disaggregated, the ideational premises that undergird the West are a certain notion about humans, the rights that inhere in these, rule of law, and an idea how humans can organise themselves in political communities.
18. Introduction to Opportunities and Challenges of the West
... hard for so little success. While homesteading was the backbone of western expansion, mining and cattle also played significant roles in shaping the West.
19. Is There Such a Thing as 'the West'? - JINSA
10 feb 2023 · The main pillar of the West could be its Christianity or its classical liberalism. To many American liberals on the right and left, especially ...
In many circles, “the West” is a popular phrase. It has a mushy meaning, though—more sentimental than concrete. This allows it to mean whatever people like. Some use it as a substitute for free societies; others, to imply the white… Read more ›
20. China and the West: The gap is set to grow | Centre for European Reform
5 jun 2024 · According to one senior Chinese think-tanker: “The South China Sea concerns our territorial integrity. The EU says we are being hard-line in ...
China’s relations with the US and the EU are likely to worsen, because of both its aid for Russia and its economic strategy.
21. Why the West rules – for now - Aspenia Online
21 nov 2019 · It is a definition with which it is sometimes hard to disagree, for as the archeologist and historian Ian Morris writes: “[…] history can ...
■ “HISTORY, n. An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.” This is the definition given by Ambrose Bierce in The Devil’s Dictionary.It is a definition with wh
22. Is the West Being Taken Over by the Rest? - World Bank Blogs
28 nov 2011 · Ferguson argues, however, that the impact of a more international renminbi would be slow to materialize since reserve currencies are hard to ...
Renowned British economic historian Niall Ferguson in his new and dazzling history of Western ideas, Civilization: The West and the Rest, argues as his central thesis that the West developed six killer “apps”—referring to the popular software applications for smartphones and tablets—that caused the West to dominate the global stage ...
