At PS’s next virtual event, What Economics Is Missing, Minouche Shafik, Dani Rodrik, Vera Songwe, and others will debate how to create the conditions for achieving genuine inclusivity in economics. Neglect the insights of women, particularly in economics, and society suffers. There is little reason to think that he will suddenly abandon this winning strategy come January 20. He beat not only Hillary Clinton, but also the Republican Party establishment. Trump won the presidency by flouting virtually every unwritten rule of American politics. First, his presidency will be highly disruptive to American domestic and foreign policy. But we can already make two reasonable assumptions. No one can be certain what Trump’s election will mean for American democracy, or what he will do when he takes office. As a result, the future of the West itself is now at stake. ![]() The Western order cannot exist without the US playing this crucial role, which it may now abnegate under Trump. More fundamentally, the West was founded on an American commitment to come to its allies’ defense. That agreement would later develop into NATO, which, for four decades, enabled an alliance of independent democracies with shared values and market economies to withstand the Soviet threat – and which has safeguarded Europe to this day. Roosevelt met on a warship off the coast of Newfoundland and signed the Atlantic Charter. In August 1941, after Nazi Germany had invaded the Soviet Union, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US President Franklin D. The West can be said to have received its birth certificate during World War II. This is the moment when what we now call the West began to take form. It became a true world war only in 1917, when the US entered the fray. When World War I began, it was a European conflict between the Central Powers and the Entente of Britain, France, and Russia. The West, by contrast, is transatlantic, and it is a child of the twentieth century. The Occident’s basic character was shaped over centuries by the Mediterranean region (though parts of Europe north of the Alps made many important contributions to its development). The West shouldn’t be confused with the “Occident.” While the West’s culture, norms, and predominant religion are broadly Occidental in origin, it evolved into something different over time.
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