Abstract
The idea of the West remains in motion. Despite the confidant predictions of its certain and imminent decline that have accompanied every stage of its modern life, the West today is a far more ubiquitous concept than it was one hundred years ago and, perhaps, at any point in the past. The challenge that presents itself is to divine the current trajectory of the idea of the West; to sketch a map of the West’s present and future terrain.
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Bonnett, A. (2004). Occidental Utopia: The Neo-Liberal West. In: The Idea of the West. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-21233-6_7
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