... partners. In the absence of this trust, even the obvious upsides of co-operation will immediately be called into question.
It would be tempting to reduce the whole problem to the fact that there are increasingly divergent perceptions in the West and the East about the origins, drivers and the very nature of modern terrorism. But the problem is not confined to a single, albeit crucial, dimension. No less serious difficulties arise within the Collective West and the “Global Majority”. For example, ...
... not saying that what is right is always in contrast to what works, but today, it seems that it is. While promoting self determination and democracy among nations may be the right thing to do, it is clearly not working in the current form in The Middle East/North Africa. It works effectively in more monotheistic nations where the population can easily join together to support one cause (eg. Japan post WW2). It is based on the notion that humans have inalienable rights, not given by any government, but ...
It was only a couple of years ago that most mainstream experts and politicians in the East and in the West shared the common view that the world was moving towards a multi-polar system. Of course, many disagreements arose about the speed of this advance, the specific parameters of the new system, its building blocks, the rules of the game ...
