Abstract
Going through a protracted period of transition since the end of the Cold War, the world order in the making is neither what was nor what it is yet to become. It is in âthe middle of the future.âTo get our bearings in this uncertain transition, we explore the two grand postâCold War narrativesââThe End of Historyâ as posited by Francis Fukuyama and âThe Clash of Civilizationsâ posited by the late Samuel Huntington. Mikhail Gorbachev looks back at his policies that brought the old order to collapse. The British philosopher John Gray critiques the supposed âuniversalityâ of liberalism and, with Homi Bhabha, sees a world of hybrid identities and localized cultures. The Singaporean theorist Kishore Mahbubani peels away the âveneerâ of Western dominance. Amartya Sen, the economist and Nobel laureate, assesses whether democratic India or autocratic China is better at building âhuman capacityâ in their societies.
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