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What if the sun truly is setting on the Western world's outsized influence over the rest of the planet?
In Westlessness, former UK diplomat Dr Samir Puri vividly demonstrates how in demographic, economic, military and cultural terms, we are hurtling into a far more diverse global future. Many of our…
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The world is in a profound period of economic turbulence, where the dominance of the West in setting the global "rules of the game" are in the process of coming to an end. While Henry Kissinger once told a Chilean Minister that history was only made in the North, not the South, eighty per cent of projected economic growth in the coming decades is expected to come from non-Western countries. Puri, drawing on a term coined by the Munich Security Conference, terms this state of affairs "Westlessness". This is not where the West collapses or ceases to exist, but rather…
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