POL101Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Open Society Foundations, Social Science, Liberal Democracy
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What we should instead view as our starting point is the great redistribution of global financial, economic, commercial, political and military power that became obvious in 2008. This is the task that we should successfully perform. What helps us in this is the fact that there are people who were born later than we were. I think it would be more useful to regard the regime change as a completed historical process and a mine of experience from now on, rather than as the starting point of discussions on the future. Just to illustrate the depth of these changes, i have collected a few statements and thoughts from the western world, and one or two from the east too, in no particular order, which are shocking. If one listens to these words with a pre-2008, let"s call it a liberal world view, then they come as a shock.
