In 1920, The West Ruled Huge Amounts

People Everywhere Talk About Islam And The West. Presumably That Has Some Relationship To Reality, That These Are Entities That Have Some Meaning And They Do. Of Course The Core Ofthat Reality Is Differences In Religion.

The Most Widely Discussed Formulation Of [the One World Model] Was The "end Of History" Thesis Advanced By Francis Fukuyama. "we May Be Witnessing," Fukuyama Argued, "the End Of History As Such: That Is, The End Point Of Mankind's Ideological Evolution And The Universalization Of Western Liberal Democracy As The Final Form Of Human Government." The Future Will Be Devoted Not To Great Exhilarating Struggles Over Ideas But Rather To Resolving Mundane Economic And Technical Problems. And, He Concluded Rather Sadly, It Will All Be Rather Boring.

Expectations Should Not Always Be Taken As Reality; Because You Never Know When You Will Be Disappointed.

I Think We've Seen At Least The Beginnings Of Rather Significant Social And Economic Change In The Muslim World, Which I Think Will In Due Course Lead To More Political Change.

Countries Will Cooperate With Each Other, And Are More Likely To Cooperate With Each Other When They Share A Common Culture, As Is Most Dramatically Illustrated In The European Union. But Other Groupings Of Countries Are Emerging In East Asia And In South America. Basically, As I Said, These Politics Will Be Oriented Around, In Large Part, Cultural Similarities And Cultural Antagonism.