It is possible that, you know, may be nearing the end of this particular acumuna. There's increased fragmentation in our order increasingly. And to truly rully we move beyond ourocentricism, i think we need to realize there are good and bad actors in asia as well. I mean, my book is a story of empire building. You know, it's not like all, like, europeans had empires, and how great. And, like, asians also had empires, how great. It's part of the same hundred year old, 200 year history. So yes, i don't think ester politics were headed in that direction for a long time
Ayşe Zarakol on her book Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders. How centuries of Asian empires from Genghis Khan to Timur and the early Ming Dynasty through the Ottomans and Mughals built dominant world orders and, ultimately, shaped the rise of Europe—and how that all might shape how we think about the crisis in the world order today.
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