In recent years, the Western-led globalization has been on the horns of dilemma with endemic political crises occurring in the United States and European countries. Within the West, liberalism and pluralist ideology h...In recent years, the Western-led globalization has been on the horns of dilemma with endemic political crises occurring in the United States and European countries. Within the West, liberalism and pluralist ideology have begun to be critidzed and rejected. What is wrong with the West today? Is it periodic oscillation, evolutionary setback or fundamental failure? Is it decadence of political system, failure of state-building or even failure of civilization model? The general judgment of this essay is that the current crisis in the West is primarily registered as fundamental political systemic crisis.展开更多
文摘In recent years, the Western-led globalization has been on the horns of dilemma with endemic political crises occurring in the United States and European countries. Within the West, liberalism and pluralist ideology have begun to be critidzed and rejected. What is wrong with the West today? Is it periodic oscillation, evolutionary setback or fundamental failure? Is it decadence of political system, failure of state-building or even failure of civilization model? The general judgment of this essay is that the current crisis in the West is primarily registered as fundamental political systemic crisis.