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Saturday, 07 April 2018 / Published in Books

Has the West Lost It?

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.

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Reviews of this book

“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

“A powerful, disputatious book. It’s not comfortable reading, and it wasn’t meant to be” — Paul Kennedy, Director of International Security Studies and Professor of History at Yale University

Philip Shetler-Jones: The West Has Lost Its Dominant Global Position, And It Should Handle Its Decline Gracefully – Forbes

Hans Dembowski: Kishore Mahbubani asks: “Has the west lost it?” – D+C

Gerard Baker: China’s dominance shouldn’t shock the West – Times of London

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Is the West’s era of dominance slipping away to China and India? – Telegraph

Joseph Nye: Has the West Lost It? A Provocation, by Kishore Mahbubani – Financial Times

Tom Switzer: The West might be losing it – but China is far from winning – Sydney Morning Herald

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