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Has the West Lost It?

A Provocation

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Has the West Lost It?

By: Kishore Mahbubani
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
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Penguin Audio presents Has the West Lost It? by Kishore Mahbubani, read by Jonathan Keeble.

The West's centuries-old status as the centre 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 West set itself up for strategic success in the long term. Mahbubani examines the myths and self-delusions of Western power with an outsider's critical eye, and the shocking freshness of his geopolitical analysis will give all Westerners and political thinkers pause for thought.

 21st Century International Modern Politics & Government China Iran Middle East Africa Imperialism Russia Socialism Capitalism
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A compelling warning ... It is hard to disagree with this advice from such a well-informed friend of the west (Martin Wolf)
Sometimes you need a shock to wake you up. Has the West Lost it? (2018) is such a shock. The sheer concentrated force of this 91-page essay [...] is as unrelenting as it is astonishing . . . It's time we listened to Mahbubani. (Richard Horton)
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')
It's 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)
Kishore Mahbubani brings unrivaled experience and insight into strategizing where the West goes from here. A book that truly speaks to our tumultuous times (Ian Bremmer, President of Eurasia Group)
In the longer view, America's - and before that Europe's - dominance may come to be seen as a short aberration and the rise of China and other Asian nations as simply a reversion to the natural order of things. That at least is the key point of a provocatively titled book, Has the West Lost It?, by Kishore Mahbubani, a Singaporean academic and former diplomat. As many in America and Europe contemplate the dramatic changes to their world in the past few years, it's been getting a lot of attention. (Gerard Baker)
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Great review on the challenges facing the western nations in a changing world. Good solutions and good reasons why these solutions won't be implemented. Narrator was extremely good clear very good dramatisation and overall presentation depending on a listeners interest.

Concise and to the point.

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Brilliantly written perspective of how the West continues to live in the dark ages while the East have surpassed them by a furlong. Great book

Brilliant

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This book is one of the best in examining what happening to East and West. I do really think that everyone must read this book and understands what has gone wrong in recent years in the West. Western People are being conned by their Political Parties. They divide them Left and Right or Democrat and Conservative this ploy and total control of the MSM brainwashing the Westerners. So unless there must be new breed of Political class raises from this there will be no way out.

Kishore really understand East&West is a Must Read

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The author is sincere when he says he speaks as a true friend of the West, and the book is clear and concise and superbly argued. The only problems I found were that he writes with the same condescension he seems to have experienced from Western leaders as a diplomat, and his analysis of our relationships with Russia and the Middle East, though not critical to his overall argument, are really very simple-minded. Still, he seems wiser than most Western thinkers, and his argument should be heard by those in power.

Recommended

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Really loved the non-western point of view. We are brainwashed in the west. It's mad to think we are all humans.

Loved it

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