The End of the Western Model

NYUAD Institute

Recent earthquakes, ranging from Brexit and the election of Donald Trump to the pandemic, have terminated the role that the United States and its Western allies assumed after 1945 as political teachers and role models to the rest of the world. This talk discusses the likely consequences of this epochal transformation. Speakers Pankaj Mishra, Literary and Political Essayist; 2014 Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction; Author, "Age of Anger" (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2017) In Collaboration with Arab Crossroads Studies, History, and the Literature & Creative Writing Programs The Global Asia Research Initiative