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Toward a Geopolitics of Hope posits a world order marked less by univocal “globalization” than by a grating geopolitics of rival capitalisms. Now that China, Russia, and much of the undemocratic developing world have embraced capitalism, this new Second World can no longer be regarded as a fleeting phenomenon. Globalization turns out to be anything but the steadfast ally of democratization it purports to be. Indeed, the Western democratic experiment of the last two centuries is starting to look very tentative and parochial.
For this the West has nothing to blame but itself. In many respects the new Second World was spawned by First World neoliberal engagement. The Washington Consensus has not only brought the world to the brink of an intractable economic depression, but has played midwife to a chronic geopolitical crisis. Hope, however, is anything but defeatist in the face of this globalist impasse. It draws upon a host of non-Western reformisms—with special attention to those of India, Burma, and the Arab Spring—to forge a Global Third Way. Likewise its moral realism bridges the classic imperatives of Third World social justice and First World security. Its paramount goal is not just a new “soft power” politics, but a post-globalist geopolitics of hope.
Russia Turns East: Putinism and the Making of Kremlin Capitalism
Russia Turns East: Putinism and the Making of Kremlin Capitalism
Kremlin Capitalism
In both its timing and its social impact, Russia's neoliberal encounter of the 1990s had much in common with India. Rapid economic “reform” misfired in both cases, giving rise to a “worst of both” marriage of modern and traditional populism. While Indians had recourse to fascistic “Hindutva,” Russians reverted to an equally reactionary fusion of Orthodox religion and rabid anti-liberalism. This anti-Western recoil has become synonymous with the name Vladimir Putin. The irony is that Putin's rise to power was a virtual gift from the West. Here, as in India, Western globalism has cultivated the worst indigenous forces at the expense of the democratic values ...
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