Western imperialism as an economic expansion

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I think without any greater reading around the area I'd say it would be a given almost that history has certainly not ended with western neo/-liberalism. International world affairs are, broadly speaking, still reliant on the notion of state craft and international economic relations, but increasingly you see competing paradigms of governance and government that challenge the idea of social liberal democracy.

Russia and China embody authoritarian rejections of the liberal democratic state. Islamist separatism is as rife as ever, there are 'nominal" democracies throughout Africa and the Middle East which in reality are just dictatorships with a little d (Turkey anyone?)

Not to say the antithesis of that book, the The Clash of Civilisations, is any truer, though. You won't see any relativism from me though. I'd rather be in the west than anywhere else in the world.