More than a desire to emulate China’s success, western populism is quite likely an indication that the structure of the liberal democratic state needs to change.
For India, globalisation as a mantra is past its due date, a rebalancing is underway and old mechanisms are no longer sufficient to align national and global interests.
Just like Phase 3, in this round too, the NDA stands to lose ground due to the sheer number of seats it had won the last time — 39 of the 49 seats, of which the BJP alone had won 32.
India’s defence sector is trying to penetrate the African market. But with China already extending significant influence, India must now play catch-up.
Discussion about outcome of Lok Sabha polls continues to boil in cauldron of expectations only from BJP. Now reverse this equation, what if we asked about the performance of the 'loser'?
The author while defining Westlessness in a global framework, cocoons the argument in a 75 year timeline.
In this period, it is true that the various references to rule of law, individual rights, liberal values etc were stakes in the West. However, the period prior to that when countries were colonized or settled in by the same West dealt them an economic advantage and thus a hegemonic discourse. Other ideas of political thought, societal arrangements that could have created a different but more sustainable planet were waylaid and an order trumpeted that measures success of humanity in a narrow way that possibly required a robber baron ancestry.
If this period when the non-West was usurped from its peaceful pursuit of globalization, taught important lessons and ideas therefore, it is not mentioned in mainstream narratives.
It can be argued that economic and political clout was instrumental in the death of those ideas. Just as Rule of law, can be extremely expensive making it easier for survival mode societies to adapt in a manner that produces malfeasant adjustments. Or an arms race that
has arguably brought about terrorism, or $ sanctions in narrowly defined jurisprudence.
It is not Westlessness; but what does the rest want? That should be question the planet asks
A refreshing topic for a change. For over 200 years, Asia and Africa have been influenced and cominated by West’s political, social and economic thinking and model. The world hardly knows any other model of discourse. Western ideology has given us skepticism, murderous communism, not to speak of colonalism and imperialism of British, et al. Even in the contemporary society, western thoughts have become the bench mark for measuring the conformity of other thinkers, politicial and social systems. Backwardness of others is judged on this basis. The world should try Confucian, and Indian thoughts to remodel itself.
The author while defining Westlessness in a global framework, cocoons the argument in a 75 year timeline.
In this period, it is true that the various references to rule of law, individual rights, liberal values etc were stakes in the West. However, the period prior to that when countries were colonized or settled in by the same West dealt them an economic advantage and thus a hegemonic discourse. Other ideas of political thought, societal arrangements that could have created a different but more sustainable planet were waylaid and an order trumpeted that measures success of humanity in a narrow way that possibly required a robber baron ancestry.
If this period when the non-West was usurped from its peaceful pursuit of globalization, taught important lessons and ideas therefore, it is not mentioned in mainstream narratives.
It can be argued that economic and political clout was instrumental in the death of those ideas. Just as Rule of law, can be extremely expensive making it easier for survival mode societies to adapt in a manner that produces malfeasant adjustments. Or an arms race that
has arguably brought about terrorism, or $ sanctions in narrowly defined jurisprudence.
It is not Westlessness; but what does the rest want? That should be question the planet asks
A refreshing topic for a change. For over 200 years, Asia and Africa have been influenced and cominated by West’s political, social and economic thinking and model. The world hardly knows any other model of discourse. Western ideology has given us skepticism, murderous communism, not to speak of colonalism and imperialism of British, et al. Even in the contemporary society, western thoughts have become the bench mark for measuring the conformity of other thinkers, politicial and social systems. Backwardness of others is judged on this basis. The world should try Confucian, and Indian thoughts to remodel itself.