Has the West Lost It?: A Provocation

by Kishore Mahbubani

Book Overview

The West's centuries-old status as the center of global wealth and power is coming to an end. As the new powers--China and India from Asia and others from Africa and Latin America--rise to the top of the world's pecking order, how should the West react? Kishore Mahbubani argues passionately and provocatively that the West can no longer impose its power and ideals on the world at large, and--paradoxically--that only by admitting its decline can the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141986530
• ISBN13: 9780141986531
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Penguin Random House UK
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The West Lost it!!

Has the West Lost It, is a provocation by Professor Kishore Mahbubani in 2018. He offers his perspective with an outsider critical eye. He pointed out the two dominated economies of India and China in the past two thousand years, suffered Western colonialism and imperialism which brought the gift of reason. Western powers used their industrial power to fight, conquer and subjugate the Rest of non-whites. The winning of Cold War in the collapse of USSR made Westerners rejoice in the democratic system with the celebration of the end of history. Is it? He pointed out the world is changing and changing fast. Smart phone makes people smarter and detect lies spinning. America spends on the wrong tool in dealing China. It is economy –stupid! Page 82 quoted Clinton speech at Yale for a preparation of accepting America second status. This is why Trump platform of “Make America Great Again”. The ending of the twenty years wars in Iraq and afghanistan may be good for America. Wake up America to understand the reality universe, he concludes on page 89.