The theme of this and most other reflections, implicitely or explicitely, is the role of "the West". How did it rise, expand and sustain itself for so long? Is its day over, with the lead passing to the Far Eastern economies and societies of the Pacific Rim? Connected to this is the question of the prospects of the developing countries.
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