THE RISE OF THE WEST REPRESENTED THE RISE OF FREEDOM AND OPULENCE

Abstract

The US exit from Afghanistan in 2021, at the same time as it haunted the world, rekindled the memory of the historically experienced differences between East and West. Out of the commonplace that the COVID-19 Pandemic makes China focus on the sanitary, military, political and economic protagonism of geopolitical ruptures, the rest of Asia, for most Westerners, sounds like a territory prone to exoticism, archaism and , to some extent, to international terrorism. With the exception of India in terms of tensions, it is from much of this Middle, Near and Far East that many of the financial turmoil arise. Therefore, in a context in which the global economic recovery assumes a relevant role in the post-COVID-19 period, reading, understanding and commenting on Mr. Higgs' texts does not only contemplate an editorial objective, but, above all, given the themes of the select corpus, it brings with it sociocultural justification and, without a doubt, results in unmistakable scientific merit (N. do E.).