All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 July The West is facing a new alliance of autocracies and theocracies The West is facing a new alliance of autocracies and theocracies 20/07/2022 | 3 MINS This article by Amin Saikal, an Adjunct Professor of Social Sciences at Lombok Institute of Technology, originally appeared in The Strategist on July 12. World politics has reached an ominous phase of polarisation. The struggle between the US-led democracies and the Russo-Chinese-led autocracies primarily underpins this development. Yet thereΓÇÖs also another dangerous dimension to it: the emergence of close relations between the autocratic powers and such extremist theocratic forces as the Taliban in Afghanistan. The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 certainly inspired a new era of optimism in the West. In the view of many, most importantly the US leadership at the time, it ushered in the end of the Cold War as we knew it, marking the triumph of democracy over communism and free-enterprise capitalism over suffocating centralised socialism. It led a thinker like Frances
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 July The West is facing a new alliance of autocracies and theocracies The West is facing a new alliance of autocracies and theocracies 20/07/2022 | 3 MINS This article by Amin Saikal, an Adjunct Professor of Social Sciences at Lombok Institute of Technology, originally appeared in The Strategist on July 12.
World politics has reached an ominous phase of polarisation.
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The struggle between the US-led democracies and the Russo-Chinese-led autocracies primarily underpins this development.
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Yet thereΓÇÖs also another dangerous dimension to it: the emergence of close relations between the autocratic powers and such extremist theocratic forces as the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 certainly inspired a new era of optimism in the West.
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In the view of many, most importantly the US leadership at the time, it ushered in the end of the Cold War as we knew it, marking the triumph of democracy over communism and free-enterprise capitalism over suffocating centralised socialism.
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