What Do We Learn From This History of Asia?

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To move to a truly new world order, i think, would require an ecomemical shiftright? A different way of organizing sovereignty, the world being centred elsewhere other than the west. I mean, what i was trying to say to my fellow scholars, as in a we, we, the debate is ofteo in china is rising. China is in surpasses the us. It's a postfl western world. But it doesn't have to be.

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. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out phenomenalworld.org