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HAS THE WEST LOST IT? - KISHORE MAHBUBANI KARTO...

'A compelling warning ... It is hard to disagree with this advice from such a well-informed
friend of the west' Martin Wolf  Financial TimesThe 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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