Lavinia reviewed Has the West lost it? by Kishore Mahbubani
Review of 'Has the West lost it?' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Reading Kishore Mahbubani’s book, Has the West lost it? it’s like taking a cold shower. It is intelligent, thoughtful, creative and provocative.
The West’s two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end, he says. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns. How the West will respond to the new world order?
Has the West lost it? Is a call to the West to wake up and pay attention to the Rest. Kishore Mahbubani says that the Western intellectuals have become so arrogant and confident that they know the world better than anybody else that “they have lost the art of listening to the Rest.” This attitude does not earn respect of the rest of the world.
The time has come for the West, says Mahbubani, “to abandon many of its short-sighted and self-destructive policies” and pursue a completely new strategy towards the Rest. …
Reading Kishore Mahbubani’s book, Has the West lost it? it’s like taking a cold shower. It is intelligent, thoughtful, creative and provocative.
The West’s two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end, he says. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns. How the West will respond to the new world order?
Has the West lost it? Is a call to the West to wake up and pay attention to the Rest. Kishore Mahbubani says that the Western intellectuals have become so arrogant and confident that they know the world better than anybody else that “they have lost the art of listening to the Rest.” This attitude does not earn respect of the rest of the world.
The time has come for the West, says Mahbubani, “to abandon many of its short-sighted and self-destructive policies” and pursue a completely new strategy towards the Rest. He offers three suggestion, described as the 3M strategy, of how to create a better world for the West.
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