Has the West Lost It? A Provocation
Has the West Lost It? A Provocation by Kishore Mahbubani, published by National Geographic Books on May 28, 2019, is a thought-provoking examination of the shifting global power dynamics. In this reprint edition, comprising 112 pages, Mahbubani argues that the West’s era as the dominant global force is concluding, with emerging economies like China and India taking center stage. He emphasizes the need for the West to reassess its approach to international relations, advocating for diplomacy over military intervention in the affairs of other nations.
In this book, Mahbubani critiques significant missteps made by the West, including the aftermath of the Cold War and the Iraq invasion, which have contributed to geopolitical instability. He contends that while the West must acknowledge its declining influence, it still has a vital role to play in promoting democracy and reason through multilateral institutions like the UN. This work engages with themes of political science, globalization, and international relations, providing readers with insights into the complexities of contemporary geopolitics.
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‘A compelling warning … It is hard to disagree with this advice from such a well-informed friend of the west’ Martin Wolf, Financial Times
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.
‘Kishore Mahbubani might well be the most intelligent, friendly and doggedly persistent critic of the West. In this brief book, he delivers some of his trademark analysis and pungent observations. We should all think of it as the cold shower that is urgently needed to revive the West’ Fareed Zakaria, author of The Post-American World
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